Research in to LTM

Question 1

What did Baddeley research?

Answer 1

Encoding (1966)

Question 2

What did Baddeley do?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

What did Baddeley find?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What are some weaknesses of Baddeley’s experiment?

Answer 4

Is 20 minutes long term?
Lacks ecological validity
Students do not represent everyone (bias in sample size)