Aim: Examine whether the position of words is influenced by the recalling of words either at primacy and recency effect. And to see if there are two separate stores for memory.
A number of researchers have suggested that the serial position effect varies depending on where an item is positioned on a list. When asked to recall a random list of words in any order, people tend to begin recall with the end of the list, recalling those items with the best accuracy. This is described as recency effect. The first few items on a list is likewise recalled more often than the items in the middle of the list. This is known as the primacy effect. Furthermore, the serial position effect provided evidence that there are separate stores for short-term and long-term memory that exist, as described in the Shiffrin and Atkinson (1968), multi-store model of memory. More so, in 1966 Glanzer & Cunitz were among some of the first to test the primacy and recency effect in a research …show more content…
These 3 memory storages constructed by Shiffrin and Atkinson, consist of a structural model called, The multi-store model of memory. (also known as the modal model) The multi store-model describes the 3 stores of memory referred to by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) as sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. The multi-store model describes how information flows through long and short-term memory, it also assumes the existence of the sensory memory store. These memory stores function simultaneously and interrelate with each other, whilst information is passing from one store to another in a linear way. This is described as the information processing model and consists of input, process, and output. Once information is identifiable by these sense organs it enters into the sensory memory, and If attended to the information will be stored in the short-term memory store. (McLeod,