Reserach On Capacity Flashcards
1
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Capacity
A
Refers to ‘the amount of information that can be held in a memory store’
2
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Digit Span
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Joseph Jacobs (1887)
3
Q
What did Joseph Jacobs find was the mean span for digits across all participants?
A
9.3 items
4
Q
Span of memory and chunking
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George Miller (1956)
5
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George Miller
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Made the observation that in everyday practice lots of things come in groups of 7.
Miller thought that the capacity of STM is about 7 items plus/minus 2.
He also claimed that people can recall 5 words as easily as they can recall 5 letters.
This is because we group sets of digits or letters into units r chunks. Known as chunking.
6
Q
Bopp and Verhaeghan (2005)
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They confirmed Jacobs’ findings findings by doing a better controlled study.
