Memory - coding, capacity and duration - Flashcards in A Level and IB Psychology

1. study 1 - group 3 had this and they had words with similar meanings (12, 7)
6. study 1 - he conducted research into the memory system and he had four groups of participants who were given different lists of words (8)
7. the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores (6)
8. this process groups sets of digits or letters to be able to store more (8)
10. the limited-capacity. memory store. mainly acoustic, 5-9 items and 18-30 seconds (5, 4, 6)

2. the permanent memory store. mainly semantic, unlimited capacity and up to a lifetime (4, 4, 6)
3. study 1 - group 1 had this and they had words that sounded similar (12, 7)
4. the amount of information that can be held in a memory store (8)
5. the length of time information can be held in memory (8)
9. how much information can be held int eh short term memory at one time (5, 4)

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