Models Of Memory Procedures: MEMORY

Question 1

Bachrick et Al (1975) Procedure

What does this support?

Answer 1

• Studied 392 American participants ages 17-74
• researches obtained the yearbooks from the participants

Recall tested in 2 ways

1) photo recognition
2) Free call

Supports duration of long term memory

Question 2

Peterson + Peterson (1959)
study

What does this support?

Answer 2

• Tested 24 students
• students given a consonant syllable to remember
• also given 3 digit number
• students counted backwards in 3’s from this number until told to stop
• on each trial, participants asked to stop after varying periods 3-18 seconds

Supports duration of short term memory (18 seconds approx)

Question 3

Jacobs (1887) Procedure

What does this support?

Answer 3

Researcher reads digit span to participant

Participant recalls digit span

This continues until participant reads incorrectly

Supports capacity of STM= 9. 3 items for didgits

Question 4

Miller (1956) Procedure

What does this support?

Answer 4

Observed everyday practice to develop an idea about the capacity of the STM.
concluded that everyday we heavily operate off of the number 7. E.g: 7 days of week, 7 music notes, 7 deadly sins

Supports capacity of STM= 7 ±2 items

Question 5

Baddely (1967) Procedure

What did this support

Answer 5

• separate pp into 4 groups: acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar, semantically similar, semantically dissimilar
• each group given word list reflecting their experimental condition
• pp had to learn word list and then recall them immediately after, or after 20 min interval.

Coding of memory= long term: semantically
Short term: acoustically

Question 6

Glanzer + Cunitz (1966) Procedure

What does this support?

Answer 6

• PP shown list of 20 words
• words shown one at a time
• asked to remember each word then write them down once all words had been shown

Supports recency and primary effect