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How large is capacity of STM? 7+/-2
Who created multi-store model of memory? Atkinson and Shiffrin
What are the two main sensory stores? Iconic and echoic
What happens between sensory store and STM? Attention Mechanism Filter 'attends' to important information to pass it into STM and the rest decays
What is encoding? Information is changed in the brain into a form that is easier to process. Mainly acoustic.
Who discovered the capacity of the STM? Jacobs. Later, Miller
How is information transferred from STM to LTM? Rehearsal
What is interference? Any disruption whilst receiving or rehearsing a piece of information that causes the STM to loose the memory
How is capacity increased? Chunking
Types of rehearsal? Maintenance and elaborative
AO2 There may be more than one STM KF could remember sounds but not words
AO2 There may be more than one LTM Tulving: semantic, episodic and procedural
AO2 Encoding Conrad: letters were mixed by sound, not shape
AO2 First things are remembered by LTM, last things by STM Murdock says this explains serial position effect
AO2 There is an echoic store Sperling associated letters with sounds - more was remembered
AO2 There is a distinctly separate LTM and STM HM could use LTM but not STM
Created by: Georgia11
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