Encoding, storage, retrieval
- SENSORY --- 2 secs --> lost if unattended to, trace decay
- STM 7 +/- 2 30 secs --> lost if unrehearsed, trace decay
- LTM infinate potentially --> retrieval cue needed, trace decay,
forever interference
+ Glanzer & Cunitz - primary & recency effect
+ Case studies (Clive Wearing)- damage to brain - unable to make long-term memories
- Cast study (Shallice & Warrington 1970) showed victim of motorbike accident able to make long-term memories even though short-term memory damaged GOES AGAINST MM
- Exps artificial so may not be valid - processing rarely isolated as tasks suggest
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