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Capacity

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is a measure of how much; the amount of information that can be held in a memory store.

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Coding

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refers to the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores.

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Duration

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is how long something lasts; the length of time information can be held in memory.

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Sensory memory

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has a very large capacity and a very short duration. Coding is related to the sense organ- information received by the eve is visually encoded *whereas information received by the ear is acoustically encoded.

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