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To make participants rely on their short-term memory by using visual intakes/coding of six from the consonants B, C, F, M, N, P, S, T, V and X, because the rate was to fast for the participants to keep them they had to rely on their memory.
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Encoding in short term memory - Conrad (1964) Aim: To make participants rely on their short-term memory by using visual intakes/coding of six from the consonants B, C, F, M, N, P, S, T, V and X, because the rate was to fast for the participants to keep them they had to rely on their memory. Procedure: participants were shown random sequences of six letters taken from the consonants B, C, F, M, N, P, S, T, V and X. Six letters were shown in rapid succession in a screen and participants were required to write them down as they appeared. Findings: Errors were noted and rate of presentation was too fast for the participants to keep up so they had to rely on memory. Conrad found that the significant majority involved the substitution of a similar sounding letter for example 'b' for 'v' and 's' for 'x'. In a similar study...
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