Baddeley

• What does APRC stand for when describing studies?

  Aims, Procedure, Results, Conclusions
• How might examiners test students on Baddeley's classic study?

  General or specific questions about the study
• How many experiments are reported in Baddeley's 1966b paper?

  Three
• Which experiment from Baddeley's 1966b paper is primarily covered?

  The third experiment
• In what decade did Alan Baddeley carry out this study?

  The '60s
• Why is Baddeley's 1966b study considered important?

  Background to the Working Memory Model
• What did Baddeley's study reveal about memory?

  Memory is more complicated than previously thought
• What power of the experimental method does Baddeley's study demonstrate?

  Ability to isolate and remove confounding variables
• What aspect of experimental design is highlighted by Baddeley's study?

  The use of Independent Groups and Repeated Measures
• What type of encoding did Baddeley think LTM used?

  Semantic encoding
• What was Baddeley trying to test in the first two experiments?

  Long Term Memory (LTM)
• How many trials did participants have to learn the order of a list of words in Baddeley's early experiments?

  Four
• What does Baddeley's study illustrate about scientific research?

  Scientific research proceeds iteratively
• What was the duration of the delay used by Baddeley to remove STM effects?

  20 minutes
• What scores did Baddeley compare to see how much participants had forgotten?

  5th trial with 4th trial score
• What aspect of the Cognitive Approach is illustrated by Baddeley's study?

  Use of the experimental method
• What did Baddeley realize about STM and LTM from his initial results?

  The two memory stores were working together
• What did Baddeley use to cancel out STM?

  An interference task
• What did Baddeley add in to his experiments instead of tape recordings?

  Slide show
• What was the first experimental control used by Baddeley?

  20 minute delay
• What does the mnemonic APRC stand for?

  Aims, Procedures, Results, Conclusions
• Why did Baddeley suspect a confounding variable was at work?

  Results didn't match hypothesis
• What are "Methods" said to cover?

  Aims and Procedures
• What are "Findings" said to cover?

  Results and Conclusions
• What was the aim of Baddeley's 1966b study?

  How LTM encodes information
• How did Baddeley test LTM encoding in his study?

  Word lists with similar sounds/meanings
• What type of experiment was Baddeley's study?

  Lab experiment
• How many IVs were there in Baddeley's experiment?

  Three
• What were the Independent Variables in Baddeley's experiment?

  Acoustic/semantic similarity of word lists
• What experimental design was used for IVs (1) and (2)?

  Independent Groups
• What experimental design was used for IV (3)?

  Repeated Measures
• What was the Dependent Variable (DV) in Baddeley's study?

  Score on a recall test of words
• What was the recall test in Baddeley's study testing?

  Remembering the word order
• Where were the participants from in Baddeley's sample?

  Cambridge University subject panel
• How many participants were there altogether in Baddeley's study?

  72
• How many participants were in the Semantically Similar condition?

  16
• How many participants were in the Acoustically Similar condition?

  15
• How were participants split into groups in Baddeley's experiment?

  According to IV (1) and (2)
• How long did each word appear for?

  3 seconds
• What did the control groups get?

  Unrelated one syllable words