LTM

• Information is coded semantically dissimilar (according to meaning) and LTM has a potentially unlimited capacity, and a lifelong duration
• potentially the permanent memory store for information that has been rehearsed for a prolonged time
• LTM is mostly coded semantically
• psychologists believe that the duration may be up to a lifetime
• Bahrick et al (1975) found that many of their participants were able to recognise the names and faces of their school classmates almost 50

  years after graduating
• the capacity of the LTM is thought to be practically unlimited
• according to the MSM when we want to recall information from the LTM, it has to be transferred to the STM through a process called retrieval