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What is capacity?

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Concerns how much data can be held in a memory store. STM is a limited capacity store whereas LTM has a potentially infinite capacity

2
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Who studied capacity of STM

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Miller 1956

3
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What was Millers study?

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People are shown different numbers, words or amounts of dots on a screen and are then asked to recall what they saw to test their short term memory

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What did Miller find?

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Miller found that 7 (+or-2) was the ‘magic number’, most people could remember about 7 words, numbers or dots

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What was Millers conclusion?

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Short term memory only has a limited capacity as only seven items can be remembered

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What are the three evaluation points for capacity?

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Capacity of STM may be even more limited, the size of chunk matters and there are individual differences

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