Storage-coding trade-off in short-term store.

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Tested the hypothesis that because short-term store (STS) is of limited capacity, a storage-coding trade-off takes place in the use of STS capacity as the memory task changes. A single-trial free-recall learning task was used with 2 groups of 24 undergraduates. It was found that Ss who used a storage strategy recalled more words in immediate recall, but fewer words in final free recall, than did Ss who used a coding strategy. Also, Ss using a storage strategy recalled fewer new words in final free recall than did Ss using a coding strategy. Results are interpreted as supporting the concept of a storage-coding trade-off in STS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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