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miller method

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capacity of the STM
digital span technique
method: list series of numbers - end of the list you write down digits in order straight away
numbers of digits increased with each list
calculated average

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miller results

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capacity STM able to recall 7.3 letters and 9.3 numbers
7+/- 2 chunks of information

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jacobs

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support similar research
female students able to recall 7.3 letters and 9.3 numbers

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Procedural memory

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Long type memory Memory on how to do something (riding a bike) repetition become automatic

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Declarative memory

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Semantic memory
Episodic memory

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Effect on misleading information on EWT

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Lotus and palmer

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Cues

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Serve as a trigger to memory, may be things about the memory like a category a word belongs to or room learnt in

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Semantic memory

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Long term
Knowledge of facts like capital cities recalled deliberately

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Episodic memory

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Long term
Knowledge of life events time stamped such as first day of school
Retrieved with effort

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Eyewitness testimony

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Ability for a person to remember an event they have witnessed usually in testifying in court or identifying a criminal

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+ Overton study

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State dependent forgetting, had to learn word list either drunk or sober the recall of words was best when they were drunk during both encoding and recall or sober both encoding and recall

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