classic study

Question 1

what is the cog classic study

Answer 1

baddely

Question 2

what was baddelys aim

Answer 2

to investigate the influence of acoustic and semantic word similarity on learning and recall in stm and ltm

Question 3

what was baddelys sampel

Answer 3

72 male and female from applied psychology unit

Question 4

what where baddelys conditions

Answer 4

group a - 10 acoustically similar
b- 10 acuostically disimilar
c- 10 semantically similar
d- 10 semantically disimilar

Question 5

what was baddelys procedure

Answer 5

after groups where selected eah list of 10 words where presented in correct order

after presentation pp where given six distractor tasks

after distractor task pp where asked to recall the word list in one minuet

this whole process repeated 3x

after learning trials pps where given 15 min interface task

after interface task pp given a suprise recall test on words

Question 6

what where baddelys findings

Answer 6

fewer acoustically similar words recalled compared to accoustically disimilar
= acoustic encoding initially difficult but no affect on LTM
recall worse for semantically similar than semantically disimilar words = info encoded semanticaly in ltm

Question 7

what did baddely conclude

Answer 7

STM encodes acoustically
LTM encodes semantically

Question 8

what is a strength

Answer 8

standerdised procedure

Question 9

what is a weakness

Answer 9

pop valid

Question 10

what is a strength

Answer 10

pos app to societywha

Question 11

what is a weakness

Answer 11

mundane realism