coding

• how info is stored
• baddely - word lists for 4 groups of participants to test recall
• group 1 - similar sounding words (acoustic)
• group 2 - different sounding words (acoustic)
• group 3 - similar meaning words (semantic)
• group 4 - different meaning words (semantic)
• asked to recall immediately (stm recall) - found similar sounding words harder to recall
• asked to recall after 20 minutes (ltm recall) - found semantically similar words hard
• X used artificial stimuli
• X be cautious about generalising - word lists had no meaning
• X limited application - when processing important informatio, semantic coding might be used for stm tasks