Psychology · Cognitive Psychology
A topic within Cognitive Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Alan Baddeley
Replaces a single short-term store with a multi-component system - a central executive coordinating a phonological loop and a visuospatial sketchpad - each independently damageable and each with its own capacity limit.
Notes on this copyGeorge A. Miller
Immediate memory span is limited to about seven items regardless of how much information each one carries, because people expand capacity by recoding input into larger chunks rather than storing it raw.
Assumes no psychology; the experiments are described in enough detail to follow cold
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