AQA A-Level Psychology - Memory - Coding, Capacity and Duration
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Memory
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A* student’s (2023) hand-written class notes on coding, capacity and duration in the memory module - AQA A-Level Psychology, Paper 1 (7182/1).
These notes include both AO1 and AO3 points for: coding research; capacity research; duration of STM research; duration of LTM research. I have included...
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¾ participants were shown the crigicnal wads and asked
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n the comect arder
• panticpants rended to do warse recauing acousucaly simuar words
immedrateng after heanng them (smM recam
¾ painc pants tended to do wose recalling semanticaly sumua wcals
after a 20 minute time uteval (LIM recal)
he results of the research suggest that infoimation is coded semanncaly
i n the LIM
limitations of badderay's merearch
artificial stimull used father than meaningrul materiali
the word liSts had
personal meaning to the participants
Shoud be cautious about generalising the findings to different kind
memory tasks
eg2 when processing more meaningful infaimation , peaple may usi
semantic coding even fcr STM
P this suggests that the finding fion this study have limited application
2 Jacobs Lesearch was to do wuh capacity of memory
y lacob's topic of research . digit spans
" capacity invowes now m information the SIM can houd at any
one tume
in arder to measure digut span the researcher gave.
the paiticupont 4
digets wich they were asked to recan in the coLLect order
number of digits increased each time they recaued them comectly
and stopped once they cauid nolonger recau the digus in the comed arder
Jacabs found tat the mean
for digits across au pastir-pants was
9:3 items whilst was 1:3 items
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