AO1 - short and long term memory

Cards (6)

  • The Short Term Memory store is the next store. It has a duration of about 18-30 seconds
  •  long term memory has an unlimited duration and it has an unlimited capacity
  • Information in the long term memory is coded semantically (based on its meaning)
  • Short term memory is coded acoustically as the information is rehearsed using our internal voice.
  • memory table
    A) 18-30 seonds
    B) acoustic
    C) sematic
    D) limitless
    E) STM
    F) LTM
    • Chunking is a way to improve short term memory by grouping items so that each group is treated as one item by the short term memory, thus improving recall as the overall number of ‘items’ is reduced.