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the amount of information that can be stored in memory at any particular time
Capacity
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controls attention
Central executive
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Occur when participants try to make sense of a research situation that they find themselves in and act occordingly
demand characteristics
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the variable that is assumed to be directly affected by changes in the independent variable
dependent variable
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the length of time that information can be kept in memory
duration
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changing sensory input into a form or code to be processed by the memory system
encoding
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integrates information from different sources including LTM for use in working memory
episodic buffer
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an experiment carried out in a real-world setting but the IV is still manipulated
field experiement
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the variable manipulated by the experimenter that is presumed to have a direct effect on the dependent variable
independent variable
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stores a limited number of speech-based sounds for brief periods. Consists of a phonological stored and the articulatory control
phonological loop
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component of the working memory model that stores visual and spatial information
visuo-spatial scratchpad
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controls attention

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the variable that is assumed to be directly affected by changes in the independent variable

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the length of time that information can be kept in memory

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