Which of the following is a definition of duration?
A measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available
A measure of how much information can be held in memory
The capacity of STM is 5+-2 chunks
Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
How does STM encode?
Acoustic or visual
Semantic
Encoding in LTM is semantic
Who conducted research into chunking?
Bowlby
Ainsworth
Christianson and Hubinette
Miller
An real-life application of chunking is postcodes
Baddeley found that participants had difficulty remembering acoustically similar words in STM but not LTM
Which of these is the definition of capacity?
The way information is altered so it can be stored in memory
Which of these is the definition of encoding?
Whether encoding is acoustic or semantic
What does chunking mean?
Breaking up syllables of words into meaningful chunks
Grouping digits or letters into chunks
Who conducted research into the digit span technique?
Robertson
Jacobs
Peterson
Jacobs found that memory for letters was better than memory for digits
