Memory- coding, capacity and duration

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AS level Psychology (Memory) Mind Map on Memory- coding, capacity and duration, created by Grace Fawcitt on 01/01/2018.
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Memory- coding, capacity and duration
  1. Coding
    1. The format in which information is stored
      1. Acoustic
        1. STM
        2. Semantic
          1. LTM
        3. Baddeley, 1966
          1. Gave 4 groups 4 different lists of words
            1. Group1
              1. Acoustically similar words
                1. Cat, mat, bat
              2. Group 2
                1. Acoustically dissimilar words
                  1. dog, food, man
                2. Group 3
                  1. Semantically similar
                    1. huge, large, big
                  2. Group 4
                    1. Semantically dissimilar
                      1. few, eat, carpet
                  3. Findings
                    1. Immediate recall (STM)
                      1. Struggled with acoustically similar
                      2. 20 minutes later (LTM)
                        1. Struggled with semantically similar
                      3. Evaluation
                        1. Artificial stimuli
                          1. Word lists have no personal meaning to participants
                            1. Difficult to generalise
                    2. Duration
                      1. The length of time information can be stored
                        1. 18-30 seconds
                          1. STM
                          2. Permanent
                            1. LTM
                            2. Peterson and Peterson, 1959
                              1. STM
                                1. Participants given a consonant syllable (e.g. YCG) and a three digit number (e.g. 547)
                                  1. Counted back from number until told to stop
                                    1. Had to recall consonant syllable
                                      1. Retention interval of 3,6,9,12,15 or 18 seconds
                                        1. Recall worse at 18 seconds
                                    2. Evaluation
                                      1. Meaningless stimuli
                                        1. Difficult to generalise
                                          1. Lack of external validity
                                      2. Bahrick, 1975
                                        1. LTM
                                          1. Showed 17-74 year old people their yearbooks
                                            1. 15 years after graduation
                                              1. 90% accuracy
                                              2. 48 years after graduation
                                                1. 70% accuracy
                                              3. Asked 17-74 year old people to freely recall students in their graduating class
                                                1. 15 years after graduation
                                                  1. 60% accuracy
                                                  2. 48 years after graduation
                                                    1. 30% accuracy
                                                  3. Evaluation
                                                    1. High external validity
                                                      1. Meaningful stimuli
                                              4. Capacity
                                                1. The amount of information that can be stored
                                                  1. 5-9 items
                                                    1. STM
                                                    2. Unlimited
                                                      1. LTM
                                                    3. Jacobs, 1887
                                                      1. Digit span
                                                        1. Recall of digits, increasing each time
                                                          1. Average was 9.3 digits
                                                        2. Evaluation
                                                          1. Lacking validity
                                                            1. Lack of control over confounding variables due to era
                                                        3. Miller, 1956
                                                          1. Chunking
                                                            1. People can recall five words just as well as five letters
                                                              1. Grouping letters or digits into chunks
                                                            2. Evaluation
                                                              1. Contradictory evidence
                                                                1. Four chunks more likely
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