Coding Of Memory. Methodological Issues With Memory Studies

Question 1

What are the findings of Baddeleys study?

Answer 1

Recalling from STM they tended to do worse with acoustically similar words. When they recalled the word list after a time interval of 20 mins recalling LTM they did worse with semantically similar words.

Question 2

What did the findings suggest?

Answer 2

Suggests that information is coded acoustically in STM and semantically in LTM.

Question 3

What did each group remember

?

Answer 3

Group 1- acoustically similar
Group 2- acoustically dissimilar
Group 3- semantically similar
Group 4- semantically dissimilar (different meaning)

Question 4

Issue/ Limitation of Baddeleys study

Answer 4

It used quite artificial stimuli instead of meaningful material. Findings may not tell us much about coding in different kinds of memory tasks especially everyday life.

Question 5

Strength of Baddeley’s study

Answer 5

It identified a clear difference between two memory stores. Gave to the idea that STM is coded acoustically and LTM is coded semantically.