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What is coding?

A

The format in which memory is stored into memory stores

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What is capacity?

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The amount of info that can be held in a memory store

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What is duration?

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The length of time info can be held in memory

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What is the STM

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Limited capacity memory store

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What is capacity of STM

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Capacity of 7 +/- 2 items

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How is info encoded into the STM

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Acoustically

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What is the duration of STM

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Duration 18-30 seconds

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What is LTM

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Permanent memory store

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How is info encoded into the LTM

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Semantically

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What is the capacity of LTM

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Potentially unlimited

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What is the duration of LTM

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Up to a lifetime

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What did Baddeley (1966) find

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Recalling items of a list is harder when words are acoustically similar for STM
Recalling items of a list is harder when words are semantically similar for LTM

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What did Jacobs (1887) find?

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for STM
Mean span for digits was 9.3
Mean span for letters was 7.3

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What is chunking?

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Grouping sets of digits or letters into units or chunks to aid recall.

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What did Miller (1956) observe?

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many things in everyday life come in 7s.

E.g days of the week.

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What did Peterson + Peterson (1959) find?

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STM recall ability decreases over time and most info decays at around 15/18 secs

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What did Bahrick et al (1975) find?

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LTM decays slightly over time but most LTM memories last a very long time.

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What is a criticism of Baddeley’s study?

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He used artificial stimuli as the list of words were not meaningful. This makes it difficult to generalise the findings to real life.

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What is a criticism of Jacobs’ study?

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It is outdated so would not have the same quality of control as a modern lab study.

20
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What is a limitation of Miller’s research?

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He over-estimated the role of STM.

21
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What is a limitation of Peterson + Peterson’s study?

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Artificial stimulus

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