Capacity of Memory
- Created by: Emma Kwiecinska
- Created on: 27-11-13 09:38
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- Capacity
- Capacity is how much information can be held in memory
- STM
- STM has a limited capacity, new information can displace old information for example
- 'Chunking' has real world applications, such as being applied to postcodes to make them easier to remember (LA2 is lancaster for instance)
- Studies
- STM has a limited capacity, new information can displace old information for example
- LTM
- LTM has a potentially unlimited storage capacity
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