Memory

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A level Psychology Mind Map on Memory, created by Georgia Evans on 23/10/2017.
Georgia Evans
Mind Map by Georgia Evans, updated more than 1 year ago
Georgia Evans
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Memory
  1. Coding, capacity and duration
    1. Short-term memory
      1. Capacity: 5-9 items
        1. Jacobs:
        2. Coding: acoustic
          1. Duration: 18-30 seconds
            1. Peterson and Peterson: tested 24 undergraduate students. The students were given trigrams (YGC, TFS, RQI) to remember and also given a 3-digit number. They then had to count this digit backwards, to prevent mental rehearsal. One each trial, the participants stop for a different amount of time (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 or 18 seconds etc). The participants tended to forget the trigrams more easily after 18 seconds.
          2. Long-term memory
            1. Capacity: Unlimited
              1. Coding: semantic
                1. Duration: lasts a life-time
                2. Sensory memory
                  1. Capacity: all sensory information
                    1. Coding: sensory
                      1. Duration: less than 1 second
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