Capacity of STM 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyCognitive PsychologyASAQA Created by: meganbradfield1Created on: 21-03-16 09:56 What is meant by capacity? A measure of how much can be held in memory. 1 of 13 What is the difference between the capacity of the STM and LTM? STM has a limited capacity (less than 7 chunks); LTM has unlimited capacity. 2 of 13 What are the 2 main studies for the capacity of STM? 1) MILLER. 2) JACOBS. 3 of 13 What did Miller observe? Everyday things comes in 7s and people can cope with counting 7 dots on a screen. 4 of 13 What did Miller suggest about chunking? People can recall 5 words aswell as they can recall 5 letters as they chunk things together. 5 of 13 What did Miller find? Participants are accurate when counting 7 dots on a screen but inaccurate when 15 dots are shown. 6 of 13 What did Miller suggest? The capacity of the STM is 7+ or - 2 items. 7 of 13 What was the aim of JACOBS study? To assess the capacity of the STM using the digit span technique. 8 of 13 How does the digit span technique work? Listen to 4 digits - correctly recall in order - if correct, progress to 5 digits - so on until you are incorrect. 9 of 13 What did Jacobs find? The mean span for digits was 9.3 but 7.3 for letters. Digit span also increased with age. 10 of 13 What does Jacobs study suggest? It may be easier to recall digits as there are only 9, but 26 letters in the alphabet. People also develop chunking to improve digit span as they age. 11 of 13 What is a real world application of this research? UK postcode system. 12 of 13 What is a criticism of Jacob's study? It is old (conducted in 1887). 13 of 13
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