WEAKNESSES

• WHAT ARE THE WEAKNESSES OF THE MSM?

  • too simplistic
  • low explanatory power
• WHY IS THE MSM TOO SIMPLISTIC?

  evidence of more STM stores
• WHO PROVIDED EVIDENCE FOR THE FACT THAT THE MSM IS TOO SIMPLISTIC?

  Shallice and Warrington
• WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON'S STUDY?

  KF
• WHO CARRIED OUT THE STUDY ON KF?

  Shallice and Warrington
• WHAT HAPPENED TO KF?

  was in a motorbike accident, left with variable STM problems
• WHAT OCCURED IN SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON'S STUDY ON KF?

  • presented KF with digits visually and verbally
  • when digits were presented visually, recall was better
• WHAT DID SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON'S STUDY PROVIDE EVIDENCE AGAINST?

  MSM claims that STM is unitary store
• WHY DOES THE MSM HAVE LOW EXPLANATORY POWER?

  does not adequately explain transfer between STM and LTM
• WHO PROVIDED EVIDENCE FOR THE FACT THAT THE MSM HAS LOW EXPLANATORY POWER?

  Craik and Watkins
• WHAT DID CRAIK AND WATKINS DISCOVER?

  rehearsal type is more important than the amount
• WHAT TYPE OF REHEARSAL IS NEEDED TO TRANSFER INFORMATION BETWEEN THE STM AND LTM?

  elaborative rehearsal
• WHAT IS ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL?

  linking new information to existing knowledge