STM: Only a small amount of memory
capacity. Held in STM for 30secs. Only
hold 5-9 items (7 items)
LTM:
Rehearse/repeat
info it can go into
LTM. Will be
stored
indefinitely and
can last forever
Forgetting: If info is not
rehearsed it can be
forgotten
Displacement: When info
goes above the capacity for
STM displacement will
happen, so item which was
1st in STM will be 1st out
Theory/Study
AIM
Terry asked"Does the
posistion of a television
commersial in a block of
commercials detirmine
how well it will be
recalled?"
METHOD
1: 14 lists of 15 adverts (60 in total) 2: 3 lists
of adverts 3: Reaplication of experiment 2
with separate sample of 23 students who
were given a recongnition task
FINDINGS
1: Primacy effect-recency
effect. 2/3: good at recalling
advets at begining of lists
LIMITATIONS
They used a small sample of
people and watching adverts
was not representative
All participants were students
so do not represent the entire
population
Students were in classroom so
might not of taken study seriously
Not equal number of males and females
TV commercials were 10
months old so could of already
seen them and remebered
them