Glanzer & Cunitz (1966)

• Aim

  To investigate whether the STM and LTM are separate stores.
• Procedure

  Participants were given a list of 21 common words to memorise one after another, they were asked to recall as many as possible.

  
• Findings

  Participants remembered more words on average from the beginning (Primacy Effect) and end (Recency) of the list than the middle, This is known as the serial position effect.
• Primacy Effect


  The tendency to recall information presented at the start of a list better than information at the middle or end
• Recency Effect


  The tendency to recall later words
• Conclusion

  Ps remembered more words from the beginning of the list because they had been transferred by rehearsal to the long-term memory. Words at the end of the list were still in the STM. Words in the middle were forgotten because of the limited capacity of the STM (7±2 (Miller))