Capacity: How much you can get into your short term memory (STM). / Amount of information that can be stored in STM. Duration: The length of time information can be held in STM. Encoding: The way sensory input is represented in STM (E.g. images, sounds). Visually - pictures
Sematic - meaning Acoustic - sound 7(+-)2: Shows most people's STM span The study does not have a good ecology validity, in real life we do not remember (WTK) Please update with a summary of the lesson, including key learning points, evaluation and a piece of extra research that you have found yourself
|