Short And Long Term Memory Flashcards
1
Q
Characteristics of short term/long term memory?
A
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
2
Q
What are the 3 key ideas to do with memory?
A
Capacity, duration and coding
3
Q
How can short term memory capacity be measured/what “magic number” was suggested by miller?
A
- 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.
4
Q
Outline method of Studies investigating duration of short term memory
A
Short term memory study - participants given consonant letter to remember, and instructed to count backwards for fixed time periods,