Capacity and Encoding

?
  • Created by: ClaryFray
  • Created on: 02-11-14 18:41
How the capacity of STM can be assesed
Digit Span Technique
1 of 10
Name of person who used this the digit span technique
Jacobs
2 of 10
Which was easier to recall; letters or digits?
Digits
3 of 10
7 +/- 2 is the...?
Magic Number
4 of 10
Who found that chunking helped to remember more?
Miller
5 of 10
Cowan concluded that STM is likely to be limited to how many chunks?
Four
6 of 10
How is information encoded in STM?
Acoustic
7 of 10
Semantic encoding is how information is encoded in...?
LTM
8 of 10
Who tested these effects?
Baddeley
9 of 10
Brandimore found that visual codes are used in STM when ... is prevented
Verbal Rehearsal
10 of 10

Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

Name of person who used this the digit span technique

Back

Jacobs

Card 3

Front

Which was easier to recall; letters or digits?

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

7 +/- 2 is the...?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Who found that chunking helped to remember more?

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
View more cards

Comments

No comments have yet been made

Similar Psychology resources:

See all Psychology resources »See all Memory resources »