Bahrick - Duration of LTM
- Created by: Charlotte Marriage
- Created on: 02-07-20 13:29
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- Bahrick - Duration of LTM
- Procedure 1
- Photo recognition test (50 photos from their yearbook)
- Procedure 2
- Free recall (participants named people they remembered from high school)
- Findings
- 15 years after graduation:
- Procedure 1: 90% accurate
- Procedure 2: 60% accurate
- 48 years after graduation
- Procedure 1: 70% accurate
- Procedure 2: 30% accurate
- 15 years after graduation:
- Evaluation
- Accuracy
- 392 American university graduates, therefore it lacks population validity
- High levels of ecological validity as they studied real life memories
- Couldn't explain whether LTM becomes less accurate overtime because of a limited duration or whether it gets worse with age
- Accuracy
- Procedure 1
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