Capacity Studies R.A
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- They had to either recall a single row,or the whole grid(50).
- They did't know which row was to be selected until after they were shown.
- Letter sequence: A,AO,AOP ,AOPQ...
- Jacobs (1887)
- Lab experiment were people were asked to recall letters/digits.
- Generally, participants could recall a longer string of digits than numbers.
- Digit sequence: 2,25,258,2589
- They had to recall them in the order they were in until they no longer could accurate
- On average they could recall 9.3 digits and 7.3 letters.
- Jacobs concluded the capacity of the STM to be finite with a capacity of 7+/- 2.
- Jacobs (1887)
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