Cognitive Psychology - Classic Study Baddeley

Which year did Baddeley investigate learning and recall in STM and LTM?

• 1966b

• 1970a

Baddeley investigated the influence of similar words on memory. What kinds of similarities did these have?

• phonics and beginning sounds

• acoustic and semantic

If participants struggle to recall the word order it suggests that LTM is confused by the similarity which means this is how the LTM tends to ...

• recall

• encode

Did Baddeley conduct a field or laboratory experiment?

• Field

• Laboratory

The test used how many ??? participants from the Applied Research unit at Baddeley's university?

• 72 male participants

• 72 female participants

• 72 male and female participants

How many words were in each condition?

• 15-20 words

• 20-25 words

• 25-30 words

Four lists of 10 words were used. List A and List B contained:

• List A: 10 acoustically similar words eg man, can, cat, map / List B: 10 acoustically dissimilar words eg pit, few, cow

• List A: 10 acoustically similar twin words eg happy man, sappy cat, happy can and List B: 10 acoustically dissimilar words eg helpful mum, kind sibling, strong father

Four lists of 10 words were used. List C and D contained:

• List C : 10 semantically similar words eg great, large, big / List D: 10 semantically dissimilar words eg good, huge, deep

• List C: 10 semantically difficult words ploce, hyperbole, anthemeria / List D: 10 semantically easy words cat, eat, lots

Participants were assigned one of the four list conditions as:

• a unique answer response model

• an independent groups design

The words were shown in the correct order via projector at the rate of:

• one word every 6 seconds

• one word every 3 seconds