Memory

Question 1

Jacob’s - STM Capacity

Answer 1

Gave participants serial digit span
Recall: 9 numbers, 7 letters

Question 2

Miller - STM Span

Answer 2

Observation everything in 7s
7 +- 2

Question 3

Peterson and Peterson - Duration STM

Answer 3

24 students given trigram of letters/digits
Count backwards
STM duration: 18 seconds

Question 4

Bahrick et al - Duration LTM

Answer 4

1: Recognition test: 50 photos from high school year book
2: Free recall test - list name of class

1: 90% After 15 years
2: 60% after 15 years

Question 5

Baddeley - Coding

Answer 5

STM - Acoustically
LTM - Semantically