coding, capacity & duration

Question 1

define coding

Answer 1

the format in which the information is stored in our memory

Question 2

define capacity

Answer 2

volume of information that can be kept in 1 data store at any one time

Question 3

define duration

Answer 3

the amount of time that information can be stored in each memory store

Question 4

how is the STM coded?

Answer 4

acoustic

Question 5

how is the LTM coded?

Answer 5

semantic

Question 6

who studied coding in STM & LTM?

Answer 6

Baddeley 1966
- found that more mistakes are made when recalling acoustically-similar words straight after learning them
- more mistakes are made recalling semantically-similar words 20 mins after learning them

Question 7

what is the capacity of STM?

Answer 7

7 +/- 2 items Miller- things come in groups and we are better when chunking info

Question 8

what is the capacity of LTM?

Answer 8

unlimited

Question 9

who studied capacity of STM?

Question 10

what is the duration of STM?

Answer 10

18-30 seconds

Question 11

what is the duration of LTM?

Answer 11

unlimited

Question 12

who studied the duration of STM?

Question 13

who studied the duration of LTM?