Short And Long Term Memory Flashcards

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Characteristics of short term/long term memory?

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Short term
- measured in minutes/seconds
- small capacity
- short duration
- mostly acoustically coded
Long term
- measured in Hours and days
- potentially unlimited capacity
- long duration
- mostly semantically coded

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What are the 3 key ideas to do with memory?

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Capacity, duration and coding

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How can short term memory capacity be measured/what “magic number” was suggested by miller?

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  • can be measured with digit span
  • Millers magic number - 7+/-2 suggests that most people can recall around 5-9 things in short term memory.
  • he suggested that “chunking” information helped with memory.
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Outline method of Studies investigating duration of short term memory

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Short term memory study - participants given consonant letter to remember, and instructed to count backwards for fixed time periods,

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