baddeley 1966

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baddeley gave his participants a list of words to memorise
to test their short term memory he asked them to recall the list of words in the correct order immediately after they were given list
to test their long term memory baddeley asked pp to recall the list in the correct order 20 minutes after initial memorisation
not all pps received same list of words, divided into 4 groups
group A list acoustically similar
group B list acoustically dissimilar
group C semantically similar
group D semantically dissimilar
when stm tested, group A (acoustically similar words), had worst recell
when ltm tested 20 minutes later, group C (semantically similar words) had worst recall
provided evidence that people use acoustic code for stm
provided evidence that people use semantic code for ltm