Cognitive Psychology - Short Term Memory
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- Created on: 01-05-11 22:53
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Short term memory has 3 main aspects:
- Limited capacity - only about 7 items can be stored at a time.
- Limited duration - storage is very fragile and information can be lost with distraction or passage of time.
- Encoding - Primarily acoustic.
Miller's magic number 7 (plus or minus two) provides evidence for the capacity of short term memory. Most adults can store between 5-9 items in STM. Miller said that the STM only…
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