AQA Psychology Memory Review Test 2023.

AQA Psychology Memory Review Test 2023.Coding - ANSWER The format in which information is stored. (How) Who Did Research On Coding? - ANSWER Baddely Baddely's Procedure - ANSWER Four groups were given lists to remember a) acoustically similar words b) acoustically dissimilar words c) semantically similar words d) semantically dissimilar words -They were asked to recall the words some had to immediately (STM) others had to wait 20 minutes (LTM) Result of Baddley's Experiment For STM - ANSWER Confusion between acoustically similar words Result of Baddley's Experiment for LTM - ANSWER Confusion between semantially similar words Conclusions for Baddley's Experiment - ANSWER STM - Acoustic confusion, coded acoustically LTM - Semantic confusion, coded semantically Negative Evaluation of Baddley's Experiment - ANSWER The words used had no personal meaning to the the participants so the stimuli was artificial What is Capacity? - ANSWER Amount of information that can be held. Research for Capacity - ANSWER Jacobs and Miller Method for Jacob's Study - ANSWER Aim - See how much info STM can hold at one time (Digit Span) Research gave a certain number of digits then the PP recalled in correct order. If recalled correctly, amount of digits increased. Determines individuals digit span. Results of Jacob's Study - ANSWER - participants had a mean score of 7.3 letters in order - participants had a mean score of 9.3 numbers in order Negative Evaluation(s) of Jacob's Study - ANSWER This was conducted a long time ago so there was a lack of control on extraneous variables This could mean the results were not valid as there were confounding variables that were not controlled What Did Miller's Study Discover? - ANSWER Instead as keeping the information as individuals, the unit of informaiton can be increased by chunking. What is Miller's Magic Number? - ANSWER 7 +/- 2 (5-9 chunks) What is Duration? - ANSWER Length of time information can be held Who Conducted STM Duration Research? - ANSWER Peterson and Peterson