Baddeley 1966 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyMemoryCognitive PsychologyASAll boards Created by: emilysmithbtwCreated on: 10-05-16 09:25 What was the aim of this study? To investigate the encoding of memory and the influence of acoustic and semantic words on memory 1 of 10 Name the four categories of words. semantically similar, semantically dissimilar, acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar 2 of 10 What were the results of the first test? Acoustic lists couldn't be remembered as well as semantic words. 3 of 10 What were the results of the second test? Semantic words couldn't be remembered as well as acoustic 4 of 10 What were the conclusions of this study? Short term memory is acoustic and long term memory is semantic. 5 of 10 Is this study generalisable to men and women Yes - both men and women were used 6 of 10 What effect does using psychology students have on this study? There may be demand characteristics because they will know of the study 7 of 10 Is ecological validity high or low? Low - not typical everyday test 8 of 10 Why might order effects have affected this study? Participants might have been bored by the second test and not tried as hard enough. 9 of 10 Were all ethical guidelines met? Yes 10 of 10
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