Coding, Capacity and Duration
Cognitive psychologists believe that human behaviour can be best explained if we first understand the
mental processes that underlie behaviour. It is therefore the study of how people learn, structure. Store
and use knowledge- essentially how people think about the world around them.
LTM: Procedural, Semantic and Episodic Memory
STM: System for storing information for a short period of time before information transformed to LTM.
Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) - argue STM is just a temporary storage depot for incoming information.
Baddeley (1986)- thinks it is part of the ‘working memory’ and plays an active role
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, Human memory can be broadly defined as the process by which we retain information about events
that have happened in the past.
1. Research into coding: Once information into memory system, stored in different formats
depending on memory system. Process of converting information from one form to another is
called coding
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Cognitive psychologists believe that human behaviour can be best explained if we first understand the
mental processes that underlie behaviour. It is therefore the study of how people learn, structure. Store
and use knowledge- essentially how people think about the world around them.
LTM: Procedural, Semantic and Episodic Memory
STM: System for storing information for a short period of time before information transformed to LTM.
Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) - argue STM is just a temporary storage depot for incoming information.
Baddeley (1986)- thinks it is part of the ‘working memory’ and plays an active role
1
, Human memory can be broadly defined as the process by which we retain information about events
that have happened in the past.
1. Research into coding: Once information into memory system, stored in different formats
depending on memory system. Process of converting information from one form to another is
called coding
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