Research On Capicity

Question 1

Capacity

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Who did research on capicity

Answer 2

Joseph Jacobs

Question 3

How did Jacobs measure capacity

Answer 3

Bu measuring digit span

Question 4

How was the research carried out

Answer 4

The researcher reads out four digit and the participant recalls these out loud in the correct order.

If this is correct the research reads out five digits and so on until the participants cannot recoall the order correctly

this indicates the individual digit span.

Question 5

What is the average digit span

Answer 5

7 plus or minus 2

Question 6

Whi suggested chunking?

Answer 6

Miller

Question 7

How did miller come up with chunking?

Answer 7

He noted that things come in sevens example the musical scale and the days of the week. Miller thought that the span of STM is about seven items plus or -2 but he also noted that people can recall five words as easily as they could record five letters

We do this by Chungking repeat sets of digit or letters into units or chunks