MEMORY - research on coding - Baddeley 1966a 1966b

Question 1

Outline Baddeleys research on coding.

Answer 1

presented Ps with :
- acoustically similar words eg cat cab can
- acoustically dissimilar words - words that sounded diff
- semantically similar words - words with similar meanings
- semantically dissimilar words - words with different meanings

Question 2

what are the findings?

Answer 2

• when recalling from STM, acoustics improved recall
• when recalling from LTM, semantics improved recall

Question 3

Evaluate this study.

Answer 3

+ high internal validity = importance evidence for separate memory functions and was a well controlled lab study = increase value
- Low external validity = tasks were artificial. eg word list had no personal meaning to participants. They do not refer to everyday encoding and recall = limited application