Short Term Memory
Lab # 4 – Duration of Short-Term Memory 1. ... In this way, we would be prevented from having the letters at the tip of our memory. We counted out loud to prohibit any rehearsal of letters, which give better results of how long the information remains in the short term memory. ... The results would have for sure been different because we are more familiar with combinations that produce words like D-O-G and filtering that to short term memory would be much easier than having to remember unfamiliar terms such as D-H-G. ... How could this procedure been adapted to measure the capacity of short-term memory?