Baddeley (1966) Acoustic, semantic & visual coding Aims: To contrast the coding of short term and long term memory. Participants: Opportunity sample. Procedure: Participants were given four sets of words to recall; Set A Acoustically similar Set B Acoustically dissimilar Set C Semantically similar Set D Semantically dissimilar Participants were asked to recall the words either immediately or after an interval of time. Results: When participants were asked to recall the words immediately, therefore using short term …
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…to distinguish five or more they become confused. If research participants are shown an arrangement of dots, flashed onto a screen they can count 5 or 6 easily. More than that number and the accuracy deteriorates. This suggests that memory span is for about 5 or 6 items. This might suggest that one should be able to remember a string of about 7 letters but chunking creates less pieces of information i.e. CATWALL is two chunks rather than 7 letters.