Baddeley (1966b)
Baddeley (1966b)
Real World
Baddeley gave participants word lists like 'cat, cab, can' (acoustically similar) and 'big, huge, broad' (semantically similar). Immediate recall was worst for similar-sounding words, while delayed recall was worst for similar-meaning words, neatly separating STM and LTM encoding.
Exam Focus
State the direction of each effect clearly — acoustic similarity disrupts STM; semantic similarity disrupts LTM. Mixing these up loses marks.
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