STM Capacity and Chunking

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 STM Capacity experiment
Who can tell me what I should do before we
start this experiment?
I will show you a slide with four numbers of
them
Then there will be a blank screen during which
time you need to write them down in the
correct order.
The amount of numbers on the slide will
increase with each slide.
Pilot study

3 5 2 9
Digit Span Technique

1 9 2 6
3 6 7 1 4
9 7 3 4 5 8
7 2 4 0 8 6 1
9 0 6 7 4 3 2 5
9 7 3 4 1 5 2 0 6
5 6 7 4 8 5 8 7 8 1
3 6 4 1 9 8 7 2 3 2 4
Please check your recall.
1 9 2 6
3 6 7 1 4
9 7 3 4 5 8
7 2 4 0 8 6 1
9 0 6 7 4 3 2 5
9 7 3 4 1 5 2 0 6
5 6 7 4 8 5 8 7 8 1
3 6 4 1 9 8 7 2 3 2 4
You use short-term memory to
make sense of the world around
you.

In experiments, many people

find that they can remember
between 5-9 pieces of
information.
You have 20 seconds to remember
the following

BB CA BC IT VC DR OM
 You may have found it easier to
remember the data as follows!!

BBC ABC ITV CDROM

This process is known as
chunking.
 Chunking
Miller 1956
A chunk only takes up one space in STM
regardless of its size
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