Features of STM and LTM

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  • Features of STM and LTM
    • Key terms
      • Memory
      • Capacity
      • Duration
      • Coding
      • Trace decay
      • Chunking
      • Semantically
      • Acoustically
      • Visual
    • STM
      • Capacity
        • Jacobs: 9 items
          • Digit span technique
          • Untitled
          • Individual differences: capacity increases with age
            • 8 yr old: 6.6 items
            • 19 yr old: 8.6 items
            • Could be down to brain size
        • Miller: 7 +/- 2 items
          • Cowan: 4 items
          • Chunking helps to remember more
            • Simon: large chunks reduces memory span
      • Duration
        • holds info. for 15s-30s
        • Peterson and Peterson
          • Trigrams
          • STM duration is limited
          • Without rehearsal, info. is forgotten
            • Trace decay
          • Task didn't relate to everyday life
            • Lowers ecological validity
          • Tasks demonstrate displacement rather than trace decay
            • Reitman: auditory tone, lead to longer STM duration
    • LTM
      • Duration
        • Bahrick
          • Yearbook photos
          • 14 yrs after graduation: 90% accuracy
          • 48+ years after graduation: 60% accuracy
    • Coding
      • Baddeley
        • Ps struggled with acoustically similar words in STM not LTM
        • Ps struggled with semantically similar words in LTM not STM
        • STM is coded acoustically
        • LTM is coded semantically

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