Short term memory: stores information for
a brief period of time (temporary storage
area)
Duration:
Capacity: 7 + or - 2 items, depands
on age and type of material
remebered
research: Miller/Jacobs tested
stm by using the digit span
technique- a long list of lettters
or numberes which had to be
repeated back correctly they
found that average amout of
numbers recalled was 9.3 and
the average amout of letters
was 7.3 (can be increased by
rhythm and chunking)
research: Baddely found that capacity depended on the length of time it took to say a word - people are
able to hold more short words in their STM
Encoding
sensory memory:
stores unprocessed
information for a fraction
of a second after the
physical stimulus is no
longer available