explore the effects of semantic and acoustic encoding in STM and LTM
what was the method?
P's were asked after presentation to recall a list of 5 words taken from the following categories.
acousticallysimilar
acoustically dissimilar
semantically similar
semantically dissimilar
what were the word categories
acoustically similar and dissimilar
semantically similar and dissimilar
what happened in the LTM study?
'each list of words was extended to 10 and recall was tested after an interval of 20 minutes'
What were the findings?
acoustically similar sounds harder to recall used STM as opposed to dissimilar sounds. Similarity of semantic words had slight effect. With LTM recall was worse with semantically similar words than dissimilar words, recall from LTM was the same for similar and dissimilar words
What was the conclusion
STM relies heavily on acoustic encoding, LTM primarily makes use of semantic encoding
What was the eval
conclusions may not reflect the complexity of encoding
