evaluation

Cards (4)

  • evaluate highly artificial as a limitation
    • lacks ecological validity
    • lab environment may not be generalisable to natural situations.
    • lack of mundane realism
    • unlikely to use memory in real life scenarios
  • evaluate msm being useful
    • artificial nature may be the only way of clearly measuring memory and testing limits of it.
    • may uncover the internal mental structure of memory.
  • evaluate inferences as a limitation
    • models of memory cannot be directly observed
    • inferences have to be made on the structure of memory based on the behaviour observed
    • inferences- educated guesses that can be incorrect
  • evaluate evolutionary theory as a strength
    • the large capacity and short duration of the sensory register matches what would be expected from evolutionary theory
    • as much information as possible is gathered from the environment but only important information processed