Research in to LTM Flashcards
1
Q
What did Baddeley research?
A
Encoding (1966)
2
Q
What did Baddeley do?
A
Participants were given four sets of words: acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar, semantically similar, semantically dissimilar.
They were asked to recall them immediately or after a 20 min task.
3
Q
What did Baddeley find?
A
Acoustically similar words were harder to recall from STM
Semantically similar words were harder to recall from STM
Recall from LTM was the same for acoustically similar and dissimilar words
4
Q
What are some weaknesses of Baddeley’s experiment?
A
Is 20 minutes long term?
Lacks ecological validity
Students do not represent everyone (bias in sample size)
