STM Flashcards
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Describe Peterson and Peter sons study on STM duration
A
Participants given a triad and three digit number. Participants had to count down in threes from their three digit number during retention period of either 3,6,9,12 or 18 seconds, after which they had the recall the triad they were given
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Q
Describe Badleys study on coding in STM and LTM
A
Basket gave participants words to learn- one semantically similar and one semantically different, acoustically similar
Participants struggled short term with list 2 and LTM with list 1
Baddley concluded that LTM is encoded semantically and STM acoustically
