Support: Look at Peterson & Peterson &
Bharicks experiments - support the idea of
different stores for STM & LTM
Glanzer & Cunitz
(Primacy & recency
effect)
A: Find if there are different
stores for STM & LTM
P: presented with a list of words
(one at a time)
Condition 1: Recall
words in serial order
immediately after
presentation
Condition 2: Given a distractor
task & asked to count back in 3's
for 30secs - then asked to recall
words
F: Condition 1; found the expected serial curve
Condition 2; distractor task, disrupted the regency
effect & the last words were not accurately recalled
C: Last words in the list had been
displaced by the distractor task from
the fragile STM, but the earlier
words were remembered cause they
had been rehearsed into LTM
Important contribution to
understanding memory by stimulating research
into different components
Supported by lab experiments
which show different stores
(sensory, STM, LTM) E.G. Glanzer
& Cunitz
Most influential model built about
information processing
Case studies who have suffered from brain damage
E.G. H.M. hippocampus was taken out in surgery -
lost his ability to make new long term memories
but retained memories before surgery (same as
Clive Wearing)
Could never remember the psychologists
& reread the same magazine BUT it did not
affect his STM as he still had a digit span of
6words
Suggests different structures in STM & LTM & that
the hippocampus plays an important role in making
new memories
Evidence from PET and mRI scans supports
the existence of two separate stores
Squire found that the hippocampus is
active in LTM tasks & the pre-frontal
cortex is active for STM