the digit span technique, using strings of digits, what is the maximum amount Ps can remember?
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Peterson + Peterson aim?
To Investigate the duration of STM
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Peterson + Peterson Method
Ps see a list of words, immediate and delayed recall as two seperate conditions, number of words recalled correctly is recorded
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Baddeley Encoding study - STM - what were participants shown?
Baddeley gave participants lists of words that pertained to either one of these categories: accoustically similar, accoustically dissimilar, semantically similar, and semantically dissimilar.
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Baddeley Encoding study - STM - what were participants asked to recall?
Immediate and Delayed recall of the lists
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Baddeley Encoding study - STM - what were the results for Immediate recall?
Immediate recall showed that the most confusion arose between the acoustically similar words as opposed to the words that were acoustically dissimilar. There was no difference in recall for the semantically similar and dissimilar words.
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Baddeley Encoding study - STM - what were the results for Delayed recall?
In the delayed recall test, the most confusion arose between semantically similar words as opposed to words that were semantically dissimilar. There was no difference in recall for the acoustically similar and dissimilar words.
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What is a methodological criticism of the lab studies used to investigate memory?
Ecological validity - the tasks are very artificial and so do not resemble real life, therefore results are difficult to generalise
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