Memory - C/C/D

Question 1

What is coding

Answer 1

coding is the way in which information is stored

Question 2

what is duration

Answer 2

duration is the period of time information can be stored

Question 3

What is capacity

Answer 3

capacity refers to the amount of information that can be stored in the stm at one time

Question 4

what are the three ways information can be coded

Answer 4

acoustically
semantically
visually

Question 5

coding study

Answer 5

braddeley

Question 6

describe braddeleys study

Answer 6

had 4 groups who had to learn and then recall words which were either :
1) semantically similar
2) semantically different
3) acoustically similar
4)acoustically different

participants were either asked to recall words immediately or after 20 mins

Question 7

What did braddeley conclude

Answer 7

that the stm encoded information semantically and the LTM encoded information acoustically

Question 8

Capacity study

Answer 8

Miller

Question 9

what is miller say

Answer 9

that the capacity of STM is 7 +- 2
chunking helps remember info

Question 10

Jacobs digit span

Answer 10

asked to recall sequence of numbers
after each correct recall another number was added

Question 11

What was the average recall of jacobs digit span

Answer 11

9.3

Question 12

what is the duration of the STM

Answer 12

18s

Question 13

LTM duration ?

Answer 13

unlimited

Question 14

Bahricks LTM duration

Answer 14

participants aged 17yr to 74yrs asked to identify schoolmates
15yr duration = %60 accuracy
48yr duration = 30%