Glanzer and Cunitz

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

to investigate the serial position effect as evidence for there bein two separate stores of memory (STM AND LTM)

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

Participants were required to memorize lists of words followed by a fre-recall task
- first conditions, 240 participants were presented with recordings of 20-word lists consisting of common one syllable nouns. Immediately after hearing the words, they were required to do a free-recall task for two minutes.
- second condition, researchers introduced a delay between the end if the list and the start of recall. During the delay, participants engaged in a filler task: counting backwards from a given number for 30 seconds. The filler task was mean to prevent rehearsal

Question 3

Results

Answer 3

results of the first condition clearly demostarted the serial position effect in both its aspects: participants were better at remembering words at the start of the list and at the end of the list. Because when they heard the words they started rehearsing them but when it go to the middle of the list it became impossible to repeat all words. First words repeated were entered LTM. The last few words were better remembered because they were still in STM.
- the resulting data of the 2nd conditon indicated that participants were still successful at recalling the words from the start of the list but were no longer able to recall the words from the end of the list.

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

the results of this study show that STM and LTM are separate memory stores which supports the MSM model.