Support for The Multi-Store Model

Question 1

The Primacy Effect: research

Answer 1

research shows that participants are able to recall the first few items on a list better than those from the middle

Question 2

The Primacy Effect: explains

Answer 2

the multi-store model explains this because earlier items will have been rehearsed better and transferred to LTM

Question 3

The Primacy Effect: prevented

Answer 3

if rehearsal is prevented by an interference task, the effect disappears

Question 4

The Recency Effect: Last

Answer 4

participants also tend to remember the last few items better than those from the middle of the list

Question 5

The Recency Effect: STM

Answer 5

as STM has a capacity of around 7 items, the words in the middle of the list , if not rehearsed, are displaced from STM by the last few words heard

Question 6

The Recency Effect: Last words

Answer 6

these last words are still in short term memory at the end of the experiment and can be recalled

Question 7

Korsakoff Syndrome: What is it?

Answer 7

amnesia that’s mostly caused by chronic alcoholism

Question 8

Korsakoff Syndrome: STM

Answer 8

they can recall the last items in a list, suggesting an unaffected STM

Question 9

Korsakoff Syndrome: LTM

Answer 9

their LTM is very poor

Question 10

Korsakoff Syndrome: Separate Stores

Answer 10

this supports the model by showing that STM and LTM are separate stores

Question 11

Milner et al: Date

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

Milner et al: what did they do?

Answer 12

carried out a case study into a patient called HM who had suffered from severe and frequent epilepsy

Question 13

Milner et al: where were the seizures based?

Answer 13

in the hippocampus

Question 14

Milner et al: surgery

Answer 14

doctors decided to surgically remove the hippocampus. this reduced his epilepsy but caused memory loss

Question 15

Milner et al: STM

Answer 15

he could still form STM but was unable to form new LTM