AQA A level Psychology – Memory Questions and Answers Rated A+

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AQA A level Psychology – Memory Questions and Answers Rated A+ Coding Format in which information is stored in the various memory stores Research on coding Baddeley (1966) Word lists: acoustic... ally/semantically similar or dissimilar Asked to recall in correct order Immediate recall: worse with acoustically similar words After 20 minutes: worse with semantically similar words STM acoustic, LTM semantic Acoustically similar Sound similar Semantically similar Similar meaning Research on coding - artificial stimuli Words had no personal meaning Cautious about generalising Meaningful tasks: may use semantic even for STM Limited application Capacity Amount of information that can be held in a memory store Research on capacity - digit span Jacobs (1887) Researched reads 4 digits and increases until ppt cannot recall order correctly Mean span: 9.3 numbers, 7.3 letters Research on capacity - digit span (lacks validity) Conducted a long time ago Early research lacked adequate control of extraneo [Show More]

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