Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Baddeley (1966b)
- -Classical study
- Aim
- - to investigate the influence of
acoustic and semantic word
similarity on learning and
recalling in short term memory
- Methods
- Lab experiment (clear IV
and DV)
- - 3 different
experiments were
carried out
- Experiment 3
- -Four lists of 10 words
- - List A contained 10 acoustically similar words
- -Man, Can, Nap, Map
- -List B contained 10 acoustically dissimilar words
(marched in terms of frequency in everyday use
- -Pit, Few, Cow, Mat
- -List C contained 10 semantically similar words
- -Great, Large, Big, Broad
- -List D contained 10 semantically dissimilar words
matched in terms of frequency of everyday use
- -Good, Huge, Deep, Late
- Procedure
- -Each list of 10 words were
presented at one word every 3
seconds
- - Each participant was
required to complete six
tasks involving memory for
digits
- -They were asked to recall the word list in one minute
- - the words had to be in the
correct order to count