AS Psychology AQA A Memory Key Studies

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What did Peterson & Peterson (1959) aim to discover?
STM duration
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Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) gave Ps a list of words presented 1 by 1 and later asked Ps to recall what they remembered freely. What did this study find out about?
Serial position effect
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Baddeley (1966) investigated encoding in STM and LTM by asking Ps to recall words of acoustic and semantic similarity after varying intervals. What were his findings?
Acoustically similar words confused in STM; semantically similar words confused in LTM
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Shallice & Warrington (1970) reported the case of KF, who became brain-damaged after a motorcycle accident. How was his memory affected?
Normal LTM, deficit in STM (only for verbal information)
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How did Bahrick (1975) investigate duration of LTM?
Asked Ps to put names to faces in their school year book, years after graduation
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What did Jacobs (1887) investigate?
Capacity of STM
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Who replicated Jacobs' study in 1956?
Miller
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