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memory - created from Mind Map
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Capacity
STM = 7+/-2
LTM = potentially unlimited
Jacobs (1887)
Strengths
Weaknesses
led to further research
findings usefully applied to real world
phone numbers, postcodes
Lab experiment - lacks mundane realism
it is possible that STM capacity is greater in everyday memory
Duration
STM = 20 seconds if no rehearsal
LTM = hours/ days/ years
Peterson and Peterson (1959)
Trigrams
Encoding
STM = acoustic mainly
LTM = semantic mainly
memory
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