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2. Weaknesses of the multi-store model?

  • Rote rehearsal is not the only way of remembering things
  • Explains why people with brain damage can remember past evens while not laying down new memories
  • Explains why we can remember the most recent and last of a list
  • Doesn't explain why revision is impossible

3. What is a type of interference effect?

  • All of them!
  • Learning material of a similar nature in one sitting
  • Retroactive : New info interferes with old
  • Proactive : Old info interferes with new

4. What is some evidence for the WMM?

  • Glanzer and Kunitz : Ps immediate recall or delayed recall
  • Bahrick et al : Yearbook photos
  • Robins et al: memorizing chess while generating random letters or saying 'the' in time with a metronome.
  • Richardson finds it hard to falsify, hard to test it's validity

5. What is a strength of the WMM?

  • Articulatory control suppression makes us feel slugish
  • Baddeley et al's word length effect and pointer with F study
  • Not much is known about the most important of the components
  • Richardson finds it hard to falsify, hard to test it's validity

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