baddeley

Question 1

aim?

Answer 1

influence of acoustic and semantic word similarity on recall in STM and LTM

Question 2

sample?

Answer 2

72 participants from the applied psychology unit

Question 3

procedure?

Answer 3

• all given a hearing test
• given word lists with 10 words on wither SS, SD, AS, AD, each shown for 3 seconds
• then had to compete 6 tasks e.g. putting words in order
• 15 minute distractor then surprise recall

Question 4

results?

Answer 4

AS and SS words recalled worse than AD and SD

Question 5

conclusion?

Answer 5

STM is acoustically encoded and LTM is semantically encoded