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Who researched coding in STM and LTM?
Baddeley
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How was coding tested in STM and LTM?
Semantically/Acoustically similar/dissimilar items
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What was the result of Baddeley's findings?
STM is acoustic and LTM is semantic
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In what year did Baddeley conduct his experiment?
1966
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What was wrong with Baddeley's experiment?
He didn't use meaningful matter
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Who studied the capacity of STM?
Jacobs
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How was the capacity of STM measured?
Recalling the order of a string of numbers correctly
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What did Jacobs find out?
The capacity for STM was 9.3 for Numbers and 7.3 for letters
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What was wrong with Jacob's experiment?
It was a very long time ago
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Why was Jacobs experiment good?
The results were valid as another experiment supported his findings
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In what year did Jacobs do his research?
1887
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Who discovered 'chunking'?
Miller
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What did Miller notice?
That IRL things came in 7's (7 Days a week)
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What did Miller find out?
The capacity for STM was 7 +/- 2 chunks
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What year did Miller carry out his experiment?
1956
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What was wrong with Miller's method?
He overestimated the capacity of STM
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What did Peterson and Peterson discover?
The duration of STM
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In what year did Peterson and Peterson do their study?
1959
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How did Peterson and Peterson carry out their experiment?
Students given trigrams and asked to count back from a number for X seconds
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How many students were involved in Peterson's and Peterson's study?
24
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What did Peterson and Peterson discover?
The duration of STM was less than 18 seconds
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In Peterson's and Peterson's study what % recalled the trigram after 3 seconds?
80
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What was bad about Peterson's and Peterson's study?
They used artifical stimuli
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What was good about Peterson's and Peterson's study?
We remember postcodes and phone numbers so it's not totally irrelevant
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Who studied the duration of LTM?
Bahrick et al.
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In what year was there a study on the duration of LTM?
1975
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How did Bahrick conduct his study?
Recognise photos from a yearbook
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How many students in Bahrick's study?
392
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What was the age range of Bahrick's study?
17 - 74
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What were Bahrick's results?
After 48 years after graduation, 70% recognised faces correctly
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What was bad about Bahrick's study?
The participants may have had time to rehearse
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What was good about Bahrick's study?
High external validity - meaningful memory
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What's the term used when a memory disappears?
Decay
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How many information percepting cells does an eye contain?
100,000,000
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How long do the sensory stores last for?
0.25 - 2 seconds
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