Capacity
What Capacity means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
How much can be held, with sensory stores holding a great deal briefly, short-term memory limited and long-term memory effectively unlimited.
Refers to how much information a memory store can hold, such as 5 to 9 items in short-term memory.
Topics that use Capacity
Related terms
- Duration
- Encoding
- Reconstructive memory
- Retrieval
- Schemas
- Storage
- Anterograde amnesia
- Classifying examples by content
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