Asked participants to learn lists of word pairs and recallafter 20 min retention interval
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Baddeley's conclusion
Semantically similar words harder to recall than semantically dissimilar words- Also, acoustic similarity only had slight detrimental effect on accuracy of recall
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Baddeley's results
Semantically similar recall 55% correct, other conditions 70% correct
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Shepard's task
Showed participants over 600 memorable photos one at a time- various stages after gave them pairs of pics and asked them to identify the ones that had been shown initially
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Shepard's results
2 hours after recognition almost perfect, over following months steadily dropped to 58%
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Bahrik et al task
Asked 392 former high school students of various ages to recall info about other students of the school
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Bahrik's results
On identification of names and faces, those within 15 years of graduation were 90% accurate- within 48 years of graduation recall was 70% accurate
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Asked participants to learn lists of word pairs and recallafter 20 min retention interval
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