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Question 19

A psychology student carried out a laboratory experiment to investigate encoding in Long-Term Memory (LTM). She used a sample of 24 participants.

Two lists of 10 words were presented to participants.

  • List 1: large, huge, giant, vast, wide, broad, great, massive, immense, bulky (words with similar meanings / semantically similar).
  • List 2: pen, clock, cup, key, shoe, bird, leaf, road, dog, bag (words with different meanings / semantically dissimilar).

All 24 participants studied List 1, performed a 20-minute distractor task, and then tried to recall the words. The same procedure was repeated with List 2.

Table 1: Mean recall and standard deviations

List 1 – Words with similar meaningsList 2 – Words with different meanings
Mean5.17.3
Standard deviation1.81.1

Explain what the mean scores in Table 1 suggest about encoding in LTM.

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Multi-store model of memory Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Multi-store model of memory

Practise AQA A Level Psychology Multi-store model of memory with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 56 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

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