Coding, capacity and duration
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- Created on: 12-03-21 09:34
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- Coding, capacity and duration
- Coding
- How it gets in memory
- STM - acoustically coded
- LTM - semantically coded
- Baddeley (1966) - 4 groups with different lists of words to memorise
- Artificial stimuli
- Separate memory stores
- Capacity
- How much information can be stored
- STM - 7 +/- 2
- Miller's magic number
- LTM - unlimited
- Duration
- How long it stays in memory
- STM - ~18 seconds
- Peterson and Peterson (1959) - counting back in groups of 3
- Artificial, meaningless stimuli
- Peterson and Peterson (1959) - counting back in groups of 3
- LTM - forever
- Bahrick (1975) - yearbook study
- High external validity
- Bahrick (1975) - yearbook study
- Coding
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