Baddeley- coding

Question 1

Baddeley 1966

Answer 1

participants were given 4 sets of words to recall in order

Question 2

what did they have to do for the STM task and LTM

Answer 2

they had to recall them immediately and for the LTM they had to recall them for a longer time interval

Question 3

set 1 and set 2

Answer 3

set 1- words SOUNDED similar

set 2- sounded differently

Question 4

set 3 and set 4

Answer 4

set 3- words of similar meaning eg big large vast etc
set 4- words of different meaning eg huge good blue

researches recorded how many mistakes they had made

Question 5

STM coding

Answer 5

pps had made significantly more mistakes in words that sounded alike

Question 6

STM info is coded by what

Answer 6

SOUND (acoustically)

Question 7

LTM coding

Answer 7

asked to recall after 20 mins, more likely to confuse semantically similar words

Question 8

LTM is coded by what?

Answer 8

ITS MEANING (semantically)

Question 9

strengths

Answer 9

high control

-findings are reliable as other researchers have found the same

Question 10

weaknesses

Answer 10

used artificial stimuli

• lack of mundane realism
• cant generalise findings to everyone