Baddeley 1966b Flashcards
How many experiments did Baddeley conduct?
3
What was the date of the study?
1966b
What was the aim of the study?
To study the semantic similarity in the short and long term memory
Give 5 examples of words on list A
Man, cab, can, cap, mad
Give 4 examples of words on list C
Great, large, huge, big
In Baddeley’s study, how were the lists presented to the participants?
Via a projector
What was the time interval between seeing the last trial and doing the re-test in Baddeley’s study?
15 mins
How many learning trials were there?
4 + a surprise test
Which lists acted as control?
Lists B and D
Who were the sample?
Men and women from the applied psychology research unit subject panel.
What task did the ppts have to do after each visual presentation of a list?
Recall 8 digits, 6 times
What were the results of the experiments?
Recall of acoustically similar words was more difficult for ppts to do in the first learning phase of STM.
Recall of semantically similar words in the surprise re-test of LTM was difficult for the ppts.
How does the study lack mundane realism?
Memory does not consist of long lists of monosyllabic words and so the study does not measure memory in its true life form.
Evaluate the validity.
He had controlled variables of the ppts practicing and gets rid of the extrenuous variables inside and outside the study.
