List of Researchers and Studies

List of researchers and studies for Memory in Psychology 

Atkinson and Shriffin (1969) - The multi store model of memory 

Peterson and Peterson (1959)

- Researched into the duration of short term memory

Procedure – how duration of STM was investigated:

The aim of this experiment is to investigate the duration of short-term memory using the Brown – Peterson Technique, by investigating whether trigrams can be recalled following an interference task of varying length.     

Participants were briefly shown a trigram (3 consonants e.g. VBM) and asked to recall it after a period of either 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 or 18 seconds. They were given an interference task of counting backwards in 3’s from a random high number between the initial presentation of the trigram and recall. This was to prevent rehearsal, which is known to increase the duration of short-term memory. The procedure was repeated several times with each participant using different trigrams.

Findings – what has research into duration of STM shown:           

The findings were that as the time between presentation and recall increased, successful recall decreased.

 Jacobs (1887)

- Researched…