PSYC 221 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 STM and Working Memory
11 Feb 2019
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Psyc 221 chapter 5- short-term and working memory. What is the duration of short-term memory: short-term memory, as conceived by cognitive psychologists, lasts 15-20 seconds, demonstrated by john brown (1958) in england and lloyd peterson and margaret. Peterson (1959) in the us, who used the method of recall to determine the duration of. Digit span: digit span- the number of digits a person can remember, the average capacity of stm is about five to nine items, this idea was suggested by george miller (1956)- the magical number seven, plus or. In addition to coloured squares, they also used more complex objects: results showed that the participants" ability to make the same/different judgement depended on the complexity of the stimuli. The phonological loop: three phenomena that support the idea of a system specialized for language: the phonological similarity effect, the word length effect and articulatory suppression.
