Coding, Capacity & Duration Flashcards
1
Q
What is the coding of LTM & STM
A
STM - Acoustic
LTM - Semantic
2
Q
Who found the coding of memory
A
Baddeley
3
Q
What is the span of STM (Capacity)
A
7 +- 2
4
Q
Who found the capacity of memory
A
Miller
5
Q
Who found the duration of STM
A
Peterson and Peterson
6
Q
Findings of the Peterson & Peterson Study
A
STM after 3seconds - 80%
After 18seconds - 3%
7
Q
Who found the duration of LTM
A
Bahrick
8
Q
What is the duration of LTM
A
Recognition Test
AFTER 15yrs - 90%, 48yrs - 70%
Free Recall Test
AFTER 15yrs - 60%, 48yrs - 30%
9
Q
Evaluation of Baddeley
- 2 strengths
- limitation
A
- Identified 2 memory stores
- Used artificial stimuli
10
Q
Evaluation of Miller
A
- May overestimate STM capacity
11
Q
Evaluation on Peterson
- limitation
A
- Meaningless stimuli
12
Q
Evaluation of Bahrick
A
- High external validity
