Research On Coding

Question 1

What do the different formats depend on?

Answer 1

The memory store

Question 2

What is coding?

Answer 2

The process of converting information from one form to another

Question 3

What did Alan baddeley do?

Answer 3

Gave different lists of words to four groups participants to remember

Question 4

What type of words did group one have?

Answer 4

Words sounding similar (cat, can, cam)

Question 5

What type of words did group 2 have?

Answer 5

Words sounding different (put, few, cow)

Question 6

What type of words did group 3 have?

Answer 6

Words with similar meanings (great, big, large)

Question 7

What type of words did group our have?

Answer 7

Words that all had different meanings (good, huge, hot)

Question 8

What did Alan ask participants to do?

Answer 8

They were shown some words and asked to recall them in the correct order

Question 9

Which group of words did the participants do worse in after recalling straight away?

Answer 9

Group one. Acoustically similar

Question 10

Which group of words did they do worse in after 20 minutes intervals?

Answer 10

Group 3. Semantically similar words

Question 11

What does this suggest?

Answer 11

That information is coded semantically in LTM.

Question 12

What happens when information gets in the memory system ?

Answer 12

It is stored in different formats