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AQA A-Level Psychology - Memory - Coding, Capacity and Duration

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A* student’s (2023) hand-written class notes on coding, capacity and duration in the memory module - AQA A-Level Psychology, Paper 1 (7182/1). These notes include both AO1 and AO3 points for: coding research; capacity research; duration of STM research; duration of LTM research. I have included some summary questions to help test your knowledge. Happy revising and good luck! :)

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cading.5 the_p0tmat un whtth fotmauLcn_iS Stored in the varLcus
lemoryStCres


a cIty the amount np Lmatica that can eheud eCch memc
StcLe




duta bn s tne Length f tume u:pCmatLeo can behed un eachmemoy
SC1e




durau n p_SIMSalimited capacuy memoy Stor
codng _mauey acoustie LSound
capacLy between 6- Ltemi on avec ge
duLaLLen bet eea B -30 se conds


duratLon LIMiSapeLm.aLnent memoLyStOre
cadling _mai▇ semantLc_ ▇
unlim ted cap cuty"
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baddeley s rese arch. s to da wth codung memc▇
codi g iAvoLMes ui pormatLen enteriag the memory sy iem and being
Stared clu ferent fOrm.ats depending on thememory ScOte
Baddeley gave_a clLp eceAt_MSL f_w▇ to_p ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇
group L. acousLLcaL y sumLLar_w rcls CSou clSumLLa

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grou 1 acausuLcauy isimclarw rai CSauncl d ffRcen )
eq)p t._ew, caw

graup 3 em.antLca▇ ▇ LlCurw ▇ umuLa mecLAu g)
eg) ieatlarge_bi ▇

, group 4 - semanticany dismita words idifferent meaning

eq) gaod, huge,hot

¾ participants were shown the crigicnal wads and asked
cotolecau
recal t
them

n the comect arder


• panticpants rended to do warse recauing acousucaly simuar words

immedrateng after heanng them (smM recam

¾ painc pants tended to do wose recalling semanticaly sumua wcals

after a 20 minute time uteval (LIM recal)


he results of the research suggest that infoimation is coded semanncaly
i n the LIM




limitations of badderay's merearch

artificial stimull used father than meaningrul materiali

the word liSts had
personal meaning to the participants

Shoud be cautious about generalising the findings to different kind

memory tasks

eg2 when processing more meaningful infaimation , peaple may usi
semantic coding even fcr STM

P this suggests that the finding fion this study have limited application




2 Jacobs Lesearch was to do wuh capacity of memory
y lacob's topic of research . digit spans

" capacity invowes now m information the SIM can houd at any
one tume


in arder to measure digut span the researcher gave.
the paiticupont 4
digets wich they were asked to recan in the coLLect order

number of digits increased each time they recaued them comectly


and stopped once they cauid nolonger recau the digus in the comed arder
Jacabs found tat the mean
for digits across au pastir-pants was
9:3 items whilst was 1:3 items

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