Baddeleys Experiment Flashcards
Who were the participants in baddeleys experiment
A group of 20 men and 20 women in each group. All of them were volunteers from an English university
What did baddeley discover about the STM (short term memory)
That the STM can encode and process information easier if it’s phonetically dissimilar (doesn’t sound similar) compared to things that are
What did baddeleys experiment discover about the LTM (long term memory)
The long term memory struggles to encode and recall information if the information is semantically similar (means similar things) compared to other information
Should you talk about ethics when talking baddeley
Only if specificity asked, there was nothing unethical about the experiment so it’s best not to write to much about it
Are baddeleys results reliable?
Why?
Yes because:
- incredibly controlled and standardised so everyone had the same experience
- results replicated many times
- internal and external reliability
Is baddeley experiments applicable to real life?
Why?
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
(Bonus) what we’re the semantically similar words in baddeleys experiment
Man,cab,cap,cad,can,mad,max,mat,cat,map
Which type of words had the higher number remembered in the surprise retest
The phonetically similar words
Are baddeleys results generalise-able
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
Which memory model is baddeley experiments supporting
The multi store model
