Classic study - Baddeley (1966)

Question 1

When did this study take place

Answer 1

1966b

Question 2

What did baddeley aim to do

Answer 2

To see if he can find a similar pattern of results for long term memory that he did for short term

Question 3

Procedure: was it a field or lab experiment

Answer 3

Lab experiment

Question 4

Procedure: what type of design was it

Answer 4

Independent groups design

Question 5

Procedure: how many participants where there and what did they do

Answer 5

75 participants

Servicemen (from army)

Question 6

Procedure: what was tested before the experiment began and what happened as a result

Answer 6

A hearing test was given before procedure

3 participants where excluded from the study

Question 7

Procedure: name the lists and what type of word each one of them had

Answer 7

List A - acoustically similar words
List B - acoustically dissimilar words
List C - semantically similar words
List D - semantically dissimilar words

Question 8

Procedure: how many words did each list have

Answer 8

10 words

Question 9

Procedure: how many participants did each list

Answer 9

List A - 18
List B - 17
List C - 20
List D - 20

Question 10

Procedure: how was each list presented to the participant

Answer 10

Aloud on a tape

1 word every 3 seconds

Then the participants had 40 seconds to recall as many of the words as they could in order

Question 11

Procedure: what happened after spending 20 minutes on an unrelated task

Answer 11

They had to recall the words in order

This was an unexpected test

Question 12

Results: what where the results for LTM

Answer 12

No significant forgetting in acoustically similar although there was in acoustically dissimilar control list

No significant difference in recall of the 2 semantic lists