Who: Peterson & Peterson: Trigram recall test
Procedure: 24 students, asked to recall nonsense trigrams (AFC), interfrence task of counting back in 3's (330,337,334). Asked to recall trigram, time increased 3 seconds each time upto 18 seconds
Findings: 90% recalled trigram after 3 seconds interval, 2% after 18 seconds
Conclusions: STM duration lasts upto 18 seconds
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AO2: lacks mundane realism, low ecological valdity, cannot be genrelised, high internal valdity, sample bias; 24 psychology students, age bias.
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