Cognitive Studies

Question 1

Classic study

Answer 1

Baddeley 1966
The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long- term memory for word saquences

Question 2

Aim of Baddley 1966

Answer 2

To investigate the influence of acoustic and semantic word similarity on learning and recall in short term and long term memory

Question 3

Sample of baddley

Answer 3

72 men and women from the applied psychology unit subject panel Cambridge university

Question 4

Procedure if baddley

Answer 4

Four word lists -
A- acoustically similar
Acoustically disimilar
Semantically similar
Semantiacally dismilaf

15 participants in condition a 20 in condition b 16 in condition c 21 in conduction d
For each condition 10 words presented for 3 seconds
Then task involving stm 6 sequences 8 did its 8 seconds to write out
Then 1 min to write out 10 digit sequence
Did 3x
Then inference task 15 min copying 8 digit sequences
Testing LTM at tamper to re word list in order - surprise as it was not just remembering but the sequence