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).
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)
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)