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AQA A-level
Psychology
A holes flashcards
with
corresponding




Memory

, Outline & evaluate research into coding capacity
,
& duration of the STM & LTM
~




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A-coding coding-form information a stere n is
inwho stored
memory capacity ,he
amountof or letters
sim Sim
--PRS asked to memorise and recall either acoustically -
to recall numbers with an
similar or random words after a short period of time
words
-




digit span technique -
PRs asked 1


-PPS performed worse on
the
acoustically similar
increasing number of
digits 93 & 7 3
for letters
average capacity for numbers was .




acoustic confusion
.
-




↳ made mans recall easier
on the sounds chunking
acoustically as it was
focussing
-



StM codes SiM 712
: -
overall capacity for =



CIM
-
also
deley LTM
-


semantically similar & rand on words measure
task ,but with research has been able to
Potentially unlimited-
similar no

recalled after 20 mins similar
-
recall was
better on randoma
worse on
semantically finite number
a



- .. LTM codes semantically
-




of time

-
information
the
length can be
A01
A01-Durch on
held in a
memory store I
Peterson
&Peterson


sim random 3 consonante
from a random
-

Prs asked to recoll a trigram & count back


numberin3for anincreasing periodo
a
a
(without
-
80 % recall after 35 , 10 % recall after 18s duration of Str 18s reneursal)

LTM
- #Bahrich etal match pics
Pictures,
recognise
to :
-
392 former classmates asked w/ name,
nition = 90 % after 15yrs 70% after
48yrs
-
Photo
recog 60% after Syrs
,

After 48
recall names
pictures
we

- free recall = ,
30%
yes no


:. duration of Stm-potentially unlimited




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Baddeley's Explain this means that its Therefore
confirmed It also
s research into both sime
replicable reliability
be
Baddeley
,


can
research is that it is by
increases internal validity
as the use of LTM is
Mustworthy an
strengthened
standardised procedure reduces possible infact its nedlicability
of extraneous variably




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strength a lot of the less
lively impact from extraneous
-




research is lab-based variables as in a
highly
controlled environment




limitation


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↳ lack of mundane

ical life
realism &
ecolog words
validity ↳
memorising ,
Nigrams
et2
also unrealistic distracter

P E
limitation -

confounding could be combated w/
variabus/individual matched pairs for
str

studies
differences

bahrion-memory impairment through

lifestyle choices , eg drinning

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