Baddeley

Question 1

what is the aim of Baddeley?

Answer 1

to investigate the influence of acoustic and semantic word similarity on learning and recall in STM and LTM

Question 2

what was the sample in the study?

Answer 2

72 participants (male and female) from applied psychology research unit

Question 3

what were the controls put in place?

Answer 3

hearing test given first

Question 4

what was the IV? what design is this?

Answer 4

type of word list:
acoustic similar
acoustic dissimilar
semantic similar
semantic dissimilar
Independent measures

Question 5

describe the procedure of the study?

Answer 5

Lab experiment asked to recall acoustically and semantically similar/dissimilar word lists (each contained 10 words) shown for 3 seconds and then required to complete 6 tasks involving memory for digits and repeated 4 times. after 4th trial given a 15 min distractor task and then did a surprise recall

Question 6

what were the two interference tasks? how long were they?

Answer 6

1= memory for digits
2= copying numbers

Question 7

what was the result for STM?

Answer 7

acoustically similar recalled worse than dissimilar initially

Question 8

what was the result for LTM?

Answer 8

semantically similar harder to recall in surprise recall than semantically dissimilar

Question 9

what is the conclusion of the study?

Answer 9

STM encoded acoustically
LTM encoded semantically