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coding, capacity & duration
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What is the title of the study material?
Coding
,
Capacity
, and
Duration
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What studies are included in the section on coding?
Baddeley
:
acoustically
and
semantically
similar words
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What did Baddeley use to test memory recall?
Different words given to
four groups
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What types of words did Baddeley use in his study?
Acoustically similar, dissimilar,
semantically
similar, dissimilar
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What was the immediate recall finding in Baddeley's study?
Worse
with
acoustically similar
words
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What was the delayed recall finding in Baddeley's study?
Worse with
semantically
similar
words
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Why did Baddeley find immediate recall worse with acoustically similar words?
Similar sounds cause
confusion
in recall
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Why did Baddeley find delayed recall worse with semantically similar words?
Similar meanings interfere with
memory retrieval
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What study did Jacobs conduct related to memory capacity?
Digit span task
Participants
recall increasing digits
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What is the average digit span found by Jacobs?
9.3
digits
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What is the mean span for letters found by Jacobs?
7.3
letters
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What study did Peterson and Peterson conduct related to STM duration?
Participants recalled
consonant
trigrams
Counting
backwards
to prevent rehearsal
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What was the method used by Peterson and Peterson to test recall?
Counting
backwards
from a
number
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What type of stimuli did Peterson and Peterson use for their study?
Consonant
trigrams
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What study did Bahrick conduct related to LTM duration?
Studied
392
American participants
Recall names from
High School
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What was the accuracy of recall for participants tested within 15 years of graduation?
About
90%
accurate
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What was the recall accuracy after 48 years according to Bahrick's study?
About
70%
accurate
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What did George Miller propose about STM capacity?
Span of STM is about
7 items
Plus or minus 2 items
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What concept did Miller introduce to help recall items in STM?
Chunking
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How does chunking help in memory recall?
It groups items into
manageable
units
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