what is coding?
the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores
what did baddeley do?
he used words that were acoustically similar but semantically different and words that were semantically similar but acoustically different to test the effects on STM and LTM
what were his findings?
participants had difficulty remembering acoustically similar words in STM but not in LTM
semantically similar words posed little problem for STMs but led to muddled LTMs
how is STM coded?
acoustically
how is LTM coded?
semantically