evaluation

• strength- showed a difference between STM and LTM, the idea that STM codes acoustically and LTM codes semantically has stood the test of time. This was an important step in our understanding of the memory system, which led to the creation of the multi-store model
• limitation- artificial stimuli, the word lists had no personal meaning to pps, so baddeley's findings may not tell us much about coding in different kinds of memory tasks, especially in everyday life. when processing more meaningful information, people may use semantic coding even for STM tasks. This suggests that the findings from the study have limited application to memory in the real world.