Research on Memory

Research on Memory

1. Coding: The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores.

2. Alan Baddeley: Gave different lists of words to four groups of participants to remember: 1.acoustically similar 2. acoustically dissimilar 3. semantically similar 4. semantically dissimilar Participants were shown the original words and asked to tecall them in the correct order. When the had to this recall task immediately after hearing it (STM recall) they tended to do worse with acoustically similar words. If participants were asked to recall the word list after a time interval of 20 minutes (LTM recall) they did worse with semantically similar words. Suggesting information is coded semantically in LTM.