Coding, capacity and duration Flashcards
1
Q
How is short term memory coded?
A
Acoustically
2
Q
How is long term memory coded?
A
Semantically
3
Q
Who carried out research into the coding of memory?
A
Baddeley(1966)
4
Q
What did Baddeley’s study into the coding of memory find?
A
More mistakes are made when recalling words which are acoustically-similar straight after learning them(stm), while more mistakes are made when recalling semantically-similar words 20 minutes after learning (ltm)
5
Q
what does capacity mean?
A
Volume of information that can be kept in any memory store at any one time
6
Q
What is the capacity of short term memory
A
7+-2 items
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