A03

• X too simplistic?

  • model suggests that both stm & ltm are single unitary stores but there is contradictory evidence
  • e.g procedural memory can be supported by hm & mirror drawing task
  • physical memory of drawing got better but had no recollection of ever doing
  • suggests that there is not just one store for stm & ltm meaning original unitary concept is oversimplified
  • does not explain memory in its entirety
  • does not take into account for complexity of each store
• X of focuses on attention?

  • elaborative rehearsal involves more meaningful analysis of processing info & leads to better recall
  • craik & lockhart suggested memories created by processing that you do rather than m.r
  • e.g look at phonetics,semantics,structures of words
  • assumed deeper we process the more it is recalled
  • provides evidence to contradict & suggests m.r alone is too simplistic to transfer info into ltm
• X evidence to contradict some components from clive?

  • clive wearing had damaged hippocampus - destroyed ltm
  • could not remember events from before accident such as wedding day/birth of children
  • he could rememeber how to play piano/walk/talk/read - procedural
  • model suggests there is just one unitary store for ltm however he had trouble remembering life events but he still had some procedural memories
  • shows there must be more than one type of ltm making msm too simplistic
• X of evidence to contradict from kf?

  • kf injured in motorcycle accident
  • was able to recall stored info from ltm but stm for verbal was much worse than visual
  • had difficulty with sounds but not letters/digits
  • shows there must be multiple stores for different types of info in stm as kf only had impairements with certain types of info rather than stm as a whole
  • contradicts concept of single unitary stores
• * evidence to support from hm

  • suffered from epilepsy
  • underwent major surgery to relieve epileptic fits
  • temporal lobes on both sides of brain removed
  • unable to transfer info from stm into ltm as he could not rehearse
  • shows that msm has separate unitary stores for different parts of memory as hm still has functioning stm but his inability to form new ltm provides evidence for linear aspect of model