

Participants were presented with a list of consonants.įor example: P J N R Z D for about 3⁄4 of a second. Visual information is encoded (transformed) to its acoustic (sound/language) codes. Short-Term Memory Encoding in short term memoryĬonrad (1964) suggested that short-term memory codes all information acoustically, that is, according to sound. Memory is generally thought to be made up of three parts:īoth short-term memory (STM) and Long-term memory (LTM) are studied in terms of their ability to encode (make sense of) information, capacity (how much information) and duration (how long information can be stored).īy way of a short introduction to this topic take a look at the following BBC video resources from the One Show.Ĭlick on the following resource for access to BBC Radio 4’s In our Time series podcast. Models of Memory The Basic Structure of Memory

Now work through the following powerpoint slides, kindly provided by Sabah Bandoui (b) Misleading information and the use of the cognitive interview

(a) Eyewitness testimony (EWT) and factors affecting the accuracy of EWT, including anxiety, age of witness The working memory model, including its strengths and weaknesses (b) Strengths and weaknesses of the model.Ģ. (a) The multi-store model, including the concepts of encoding, capacity and duration.
