short term memory

• how is information encoded into short term memory?

  information is encoded into the STM acoustically
• what is the capacity and duration of STM?

  capacity: 7 +/- 2 items

  duration: 15-30 seconds
• what did Baddeley prove in 1966?

  participants were worse with recalling acoustically similar words during his study, this proved information is encoded into the stm acoustically as acoustically similar words conflicted with each other.
• what did miller conclude in 1956?

  he concluded the capacity of stm to be 7+/-2 items, he also suggested people increase this capacity by 'chunking' information together.