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Short term memory
-Capacity
-Duration
-Encoding

-5-9 items
-18-20s
-Mostly acoustic

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Long Term
-Capacity
-Duration
-Encoding

-Infinite
-Up to a life time
-Mainly Semantic

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Sensory store
-Capacity
-Duration
-Encoding

-Less than 0.5 seconds
-Very limited
-Depends on stimulus

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What are these types of retrieval?
-Recognition
-Clued Recall
-Free Recall

-Recalling information from multiple choices
-Recalling information with a clue
-Recalling information without a clue

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Baddeley eval points

-Cannot generalise findings
-Lab setting is unnatural

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Multi-store Model of memory order

-input - sensory store - attention - short term - transfer - long term

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Multi-store-model strengths

-Peterson and Peterson's study on short-term retention proves that the MSM is accurate in the duration and capacity of the short term memory.
-Murdock's serial position curve supports the MSM as it proves the duration of the short term memory by showing t

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Multi-store model weaknesses

-Fails to include savant syndrome, where someone can transfer their memory from their short-term memory to their long-term without the need for rehearsal.
-Memories that hold strong emotional significance do not require rehearsal either.

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What is episodic memory?

Episodic memory is the ability to recall events. They are linked to the hippocampus.

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What is semantic memory?

Semantic memory is the knowledge of facts. It is linked to the temporal lobe.

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What is procedural memory?

Procedural memory is our ability to recall how to do things. For example, riding a bike or holding a pen. It is linked to the cerebellum.

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Strengths of types of long-term memory

-The case of Clive Wearing whom developed an infection in his brain, causing him to lose parts of his memory. Whilst he had lost parts of his memory, his procedural memory remained in tact. Showing it is different from the other types.
-Brain scans have s

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Weaknesses of types of long-term memory

-There isn't a clear difference between semantic and episodic memories. Some could argue that most of our memories are a mixture between the two.

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