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1
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Short Term Memory

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we sometimes try to keep information active by repeating it to ourselves

2
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Short Term Memory coding

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acoustic

3
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Long Term Memory

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it’s more useful to code words in terms of their meaning, rather than what they sound or look like

4
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Long Term Memory coding

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semantic but can also be visual or acoustic

5
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Visual

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picture

6
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Acoustic

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sound

7
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Semantic

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meaning

8
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Baddeley study

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investigating coding in short term memory and long term memory

9
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Method

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Participants were given four sets of words that were either acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar, semantically similar or semantically dissimilar

10
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Method - independent groups

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The experiment used an independent groups design - participants were asked to recall the words either immediately or following a 20 minute task

11
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Results: Short Term Memory

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Participants had problems recalling acoustically similar words when recalling the word list immediately from short term memory.

12
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Results: Long Term Memory

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If recalling after an interval from Long Term Memory, they had problems with semantically similar words

13
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Conclusions

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The patterns of conclusion between similar words suggesting that Long Term Memory is more likely to rely on semantic coding and Short Term Memory on acoustic coding

14
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Evaluation: Ecological Validity

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The study lacked ecological validity

15
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Evaluation: other types of LTM

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Episodic Memory

Procedural Memory

16
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Method

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participants were given four sets of words that were either acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar, semantically similar or semantically dissimilar

17
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acoustically similar

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man
mad
mat

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acoustically dissimilar

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pit
cow
bar

19
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semantically similar

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big
large
huge

20
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semantically dissimilar

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good
hot
pig

21
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Method: design

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the experiment used an independent groups design

22
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Method: recall

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participants were asked to recall the words either immediately or following a 20 minute task

23
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Results: Short Term Memory

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participants had problems recalling acoustically similar words when recalling the word list immediately

24
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Results: Long Term Memory

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if recalling them after an interval, they had problems with semantically similar words

25
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Conclusion

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Long Term Memory is more likely to rely on semantic coding and Short Term Memory on acoustic coding

26
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Evaluation: Ecological Validity

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the study lacks ecological validity

27
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Evaluation: types of LTM

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there are other types of Long Term Memory

  • Episodic
  • Procedural
28
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Evaluation: types of coding

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there are other types of coding

- Visual

29
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Evaluation: Independent Groups Design

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the experiment uses an independent groups design, so there wasn’t any control over participant variables