psychology 2nd lesson

psychology 2nd lesson:

• coding: the format which information is stored in
• capacity: the amount that memory can hold
• duration: the length of time information is held in memory

RESEARCH INTO CODING:

• carried out by Alan Baddeley
• words that were accoustically similar were harderr to recall from STM (sound similar)
• words that were semantically similar were harder to recall from LTM (mean similar)

Conclusion: information  is coded accousitcally in STM and semantically in LTM.  e.g~hot, trot    e.g~warm,hot

RESEARCH ON CAPACITY:

• carried out by Joseph Jacobs (1880)
• measured 8 digit span
• the number of digits you can remember in the corract order out loud
• the mean digit span was 7.3
• miller was interested in the…