Coding, Capacity and Duration

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What did Baddeley investigate?
The coding of memory
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What did Baddeley find?
Of the 4 groups, acoustically similar were worst at ST test and semantically similar were worst at LT test
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What did Jacobs investigate?
Capacity
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What did Jacobs find?
Digital span was 9.3 and letter span was 7.3
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What did Miller investigate?
Capacity
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Why did Miller investigate capacity?
He noticed that there are 7s in everything; magic 7
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Who opposed Miller's suggestions?
Cowan; said that chunking was in 4s
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What did Peterson and Peterson investigate?
ST duration
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What did Peterson and Peterson use in their investigation?
24 participants; trigram; 3 digits; retention time of 3-18 seconds
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What did Bahrick investigate?
LT duration
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What did Bahrick find?
(48) 70% recognition, 30% recall
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Who and how did Shepard support?
Bahrick; meaningless photos had lower recall
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Why might Peterson and Peterson's results not be useful?
They put forgetting down to displacement, but decay is also possible
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What is the con of Baddeley's study?
The stimuli was meaningless; the word list had no meaning to the participants
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What is the con of Jacobs' study?
It was conducted a long time ago, can not generalise to today
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What was a con of Peterson and Peterson's study?
Meaningless stimuli and low mundane realism
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What was a strength of Bahrick's study?
High external validity due to meaningful memories
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What is a con of Bahrick's study?
Confounding variables were not controlled
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