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Researcher who studied STM/LTM encoding (1966b)

Alan Baddeley

Baddeley's aim

Investigate acoustic & semantic similarity on STM & LTM recall

What List A contained

10 acoustically similar words

What List C contained

10 semantically similar words

Main encoding type in STM (Baddeley)

Acoustic (sound-based)

Main encoding type in LTM (Baddeley)

Semantic (meaning-based)

Number of learning trials (Baddeley)

Four trials

IV in Baddeley's study

Type of word list (acoustic/semantic similarity)

Key strength of Baddeley's methodology

Controlled lab, standardised, replicable

Weakness: mundane realism (Baddeley)

Learning random word lists doesn't reflect everyday memory

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