Long-term memory
- Created by: Martha Bowen
- Created on: 05-04-14 12:32
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- Long-term memory
- Encoding
- Semantic and visual encoding
- visual = storing mental images and sensory information
- Semantic = encoding information that has a particular meaning.
- (Putting sensory information into a form that can be stored in the memory)
- Semantic and visual encoding
- Capacity
- No known limit for capacity of LTM
- Standing et al found for facial recognition, LTM can store up to 2560 chunks.
- (How much information can be stored at any one time)
- No known limit for capacity of LTM
- Duration
- Information can be stored in the LTM for a lifetime.
- Very difficult to measure.
- (How long information can be held)
- Information can be stored in the LTM for a lifetime.
- Encoding
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