Memory Psychology

• STM is a limited capacity memory store,
• How is STM coded

  It is coded acoustically
• How is large is capacity of STM

  5-9 items
• What is the duration of STM

  18 seconds
• What is LTM


  unlimited memory store
• How is LTM coded

  it is coded semantically
• what is the capacity of LTM

  unlimited
• what is the duration of LTM

  lasts a lifetime
• duration is how long the information can be stored for
• capacity is the amount of information that can be sotred
• coding is the way infomation is stored in memory stores