Baddley (1966) Flashcards
What did they investigate?
The main form of coding in STM by identifying errors in the recall of lists of similar sounding word and similar meaning words.
What were the procedures?
Participants were shown various lists of words and asked to recall them in the correct order.
What were the findings?
When tested immediately after presentation it was four. That more mistakes came from mixing up the words that were acoustically similar rather than words that were semantically.
What did Baddley conclude?
More errors with acoustically similar words because they said them to themselves, so similar sounding ones are likely to get confused. Thai supports the idea that main form of coding in STM is acoustic.
Disadvantage of this experiment?
Controlled laboratory environment means that P’s were in highly an artificial environment.
The research therefore lacks ecological validity.
