Strengths

• Based on a lot of evidence
• What are the other research to support the model?

  Distraction, delay and interference

  Brain damaged patients

  Primary, recency and the serial postion effect
• What did Glanzer and Cunitz do?

  Showed Ps 20 words in succession then asked to free recall
• What was the probability of recalling based on?

  Where the position of the word was on the list (serial position effect)
• What did the serial position effect show?

  That people are more likely to remember words from the beginning and the end of the list than the middle
• What is the primary effect?

  Remembering words from the beginning
• What is the recency effect?

  Remembering words from the end of the list
• What did the Brown-Peterson effect show?

  That information from STM is lost if there's a delay between memorising information and recalling it
• What % of information will be lost in 20s if there's no rehearsal?

  90%
• What are the causes of forgetting in STM


  Lack of capacity
• What causes forgetting in LTM ?

  Retrieval failure, decay or interference
• What were the 2 main brain damaged paitients?

  Clive Wearing and KF
• What happened to CW?

  Brain infection caused by a cold sore virus
• How did this effect CW?

  Destroyed his hippocampus and parts of his cortex
• How did this effect CW?

  His memory lasted about 7 seconds

  He could still walk, talk and his musical ability was well preserved

  His capacity of his past was extremely patchy
• What happened to KF?

  Motorcycle accident
• What happened to his STM and LTM?

  STM was grossly impaired

  LTM was normal
• What was wrong with his STM?

  Could only remember only 2 items or chunks
• How did KF disprove the MSM?

  His LTM was normal which shouldn't be possible as if his STM was reduced than so should his LTM
• What was it?

  Useful, simple and classic model
• What did it need?

  Refining not rejecting
• Why was it good as a first attempt to model memory?

  Clear and easy to comprehend
• Where did Atkinson and Shiffrin test their model?

  In lab experiments and demonstrated repeatedly
• What did it show?

  Clear differences between these memory stores
• What is an example of what is showed?

  They differ in terms of encoding, capacity and duration

  The research in brain damaged patients supported the ideas of 3 memory stores