Cognitive psychology

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What was the aim of Baddeley?
Investigating the influence of acoustic and semantic words on word recall in the short and long term memory
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What was the sample?
72 participants from the psychology unit
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How was the study carried out?
After a hearing test 10 words were presented for 3 seconds. They then completed 6 tasks involving memory before being asked to write the words in order 4 times. After a distractor task, they were given a surprise recall test of the words
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What were the results of the study?
Acoustically dissimilar words were recalled better than similar ones and semantically similar were harder to recall in the surprise recall test
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What was concluded from the study?
That our short term memory is acoustically encoded whereas our long term memory is semantically encoded
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What does a lab experiment help with?
It helps make the study more replicable meaning we can repeat the experiment and compare results, making the results more credible
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What do high levels of control in the study mean?
It means that there is no risk of extraneous variables which will effect the results
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Why is the sample a strength?
There are both men and women included, so it is more representative of the population
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What is the weakness with it being a lab experiment?
It lacks ecological validity and has very little reflection on real life
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Why may the sample lack generalisability?
Because they are all from the same background of the psychology unit
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