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Coding, capacity and duration of memory
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List one way in which researchers have investigated the capacity of short-term memory
Participants are read a
sequence
of
letters
/numbers and asked to
repeat
the same sequence back immediately.
An
additional
digit is added on each subsequent trial to measure the capacity of
STM
(the
digit span technique
)
List one way in which researchers have investigated the duration of short-term memory.
Participants
are given a
trigram
(three-letter nonsense syllable) and then asked to
count
backwards
from a
certain
number
for a specified time.
They are then asked to
recall
the original trigram.
