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If words are similar, your short term memory has issues processing them because it takes longer to sort out which word is which so creates confusion. Dissimilar are easier because they won’t be as muddled.

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If the short-term memory is acoustically encoded, why in studies such as Baddeley, have they found acoustically similar words to be harder to recall?

Here is a limitation in the style of a PEEL evaluation paragraph:

One limitation of the behaviourist approach is that it is reductionist. For example it only considers animals, including humans, to be passive and machine-like responders to the environment, with little to no conscious insight into their behaviour. This is a limitation because it fails to consider the complexities of human behaviour.  Other approaches such as social learning theory or the cognitive approach have emphasised the importance of mental processes during learning.  These processes, which mediate between stimulus and response, suggest that people may play a much more active role in their own learning.  This means that learning theory may apply less to human than to animal behaviour.Consequently the credibility of the behaviourist approach is reduced.


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