Memory: Short and Long

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What is coding?
The process of information being written into memory
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What are the three forms of sensory memory?
Acoustic (Sound e.g. songs, voices) Visual(Images e.g. faces) Semantic(Meanings e.g. word definitions)
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What did Baddeley (1966) test?
Effects of acoustic and semantic similarity on STM and LTM
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What was his method?
Participants asked to recall words 4 times with interference task in between (20 minutes) and then asked to recall the words again
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What were his findings?
Difficulty in recalling semantically similar words in LTM, no difficulty in STM

Difficulty in recalling acoustically similar in STM, no difficulty in LTM
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What affects the STM?
Acoustic similarity
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What affects the LTM?
Semantic similarity
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What does this tell us?
Information in the LTM is encoded semantically

Information in the STM is encoded acoustically
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