Baddeleys Experiment Flashcards

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Who were the participants in baddeleys experiment

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A group of 20 men and 20 women in each group. All of them were volunteers from an English university

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What did baddeley discover about the STM (short term memory)

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That the STM can encode and process information easier if it’s phonetically dissimilar (doesn’t sound similar) compared to things that are

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What did baddeleys experiment discover about the LTM (long term memory)

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The long term memory struggles to encode and recall information if the information is semantically similar (means similar things) compared to other information

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Should you talk about ethics when talking baddeley

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Only if specificity asked, there was nothing unethical about the experiment so it’s best not to write to much about it

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Are baddeleys results reliable?
Why?

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Yes because:
- incredibly controlled and standardised so everyone had the same experience
- results replicated many times
- internal and external reliability

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Is baddeley experiments applicable to real life?
Why?

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Yes, the results have applications in education.
If LTM stores information semantically. Then make the information they have to learn have minimal amount of overlapping information

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(Bonus) what we’re the semantically similar words in baddeleys experiment

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Man,cab,cap,cad,can,mad,max,mat,cat,map

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Which type of words had the higher number remembered in the surprise retest

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The phonetically similar words

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Are baddeleys results generalise-able

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Yes or no because:
-only accounts for people without any mental issues effecting memory
-has been repeated with different people many many times
-people from the original test were all young

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Which memory model is baddeley experiments supporting

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The multi store model

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