Baddeley 1966

Exploring the effects of acoustic and semantic encoding in the STM and the LTM.

Words in the follow categories were used:
Acoustically similar words
Acoustically dissimilar words
Semantically similar words
Semantically dissimilar words.

In the STM study participants were ask immediately after presentation to recall in order 5 words.
In the LTM study each list of words was extended to 10 and was tested on recall after 20 minutes

Baddeley found that STM participants struggled to recall acoustically similar words, whereas the LTM participants struggled with the semantically similar words.
From this it was possible to conclude that acoustic is important for short time encoding, while long term encoding focuses on semantic.

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