suggests how memory its transferred from one store to another
A) Sensory Memory
B) Short-term Memory
C) Long-term Memory
D) Rehearsal Loop
E) Retrieval
Primacy-recency effect
Glanzer & Curtiz (1966)-free recall task
primacy effect: words at the beginning of the list have been rehearsed and stored in LTM, can be recalled
recency effect: words at the end of the list were recalled best because they're still in STM
asymptote: words in the middle of the list were recalled poorly, not rehearsed long enough and displaced by later words
supports the MSM
Case study: HM
His hippocampus was removed
He could not learn new information and unable to recall events for about 10 years before the surgery
Normal digit span result-STM unaffected
LTM defective (couldn't transfer NEWinformation to his LTM- able to recall events in his early life)
Case study: KF
Motorbike accident
Intact LTM- could learn new information and recalled stored information
STM affected- digit span of 2
MSM is flawed because his STM recall was much better when he read the digits himself (visual) but limited when the numbers were read aloud to him (acoustic)
STM is NOT UNITARY
Ecological Validity
Ability to generalise the findings based on lab research to real-life situations
Brain scans
Squires (1992) found that:
Hippocampus is active during LTM tasks
Areas in the pre-frontal cortex are activated for STM tasks
Evidence for the existence of separate stores in MSM
