Features of each store: coding, capacity and duration
Each memory store handles information differently. The three stores — sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory — differ in how they encode information, how much they hold, and how long they keep it.
Real World
Baddeley (1966) showed that participants confused acoustically similar words (e.g. 'man' and 'map') in short-term recall but confused semantically similar words (e.g. 'big' and 'large') in long-term recall, demonstrating different coding in STM and LTM.
Exam Focus
Learn the specific research evidence for each feature (e.g. Baddeley for coding, Miller for capacity, Peterson & Peterson for duration) — examiners expect named studies.
Evaluation Scaffold
A four-step framework for high-quality evaluation. Use this for 'assess', 'evaluate', and 'to what extent' questions.
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