Memory Capacity/Coding
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- Created on: 27-01-20 15:16
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- Memory Capacity
- Keywords
- Duration - The length of time info can be held in memory
- Capacity - The amount of info that can be held in a memory store
- Chunking - Grouping sets of digits or words into chunks
- Short Term Memory (STM) - Acoustic coding
- Long Term Memory (LTM) - Semantic coding
- Coding - The way info is stored in different memory stores
- Coding
- Acoustic - Sound
- Semantic - Meaning
- Acoustically /Semantically Similar - sound/mean the same
- Acoustically / Semantically dissimilar - Don't sound/mean the same
- George Miller - Miller's Magic Number (1956)
- Span of immediate memory = 7+/-2
- Miller's Magic Number (7)
- Phone numbers or car registrations are remembered through chunking
- Research on Coding - Alan Baddeley (1966)
- Harder to recall semantically similar words over a long period of time
- Harder to recall similar sounding words from STM
- Words that sound the same confuse the STM and words that are semantically similar confuse the LTM
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