To provide evidence to support the multi-store explanation of memory
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What was Murdock's method ?
Participants were presented with a list of words, one at a time for 2 seconds per word. They were then asked to recall the words in any order
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What was Murdock's results?
The words at the end of the list were recalled first (known as the recency effect). Words from the beginning of the list were also recalled quite well (known as the primacy effect). The middle words were not recalled very well
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What was Murdock's conclusion?
This provides evidence for separate shortterm and long-term stores. Murdock also said that the recency effect shows evidence for the short-term store and the primacy effect shows evidence for the long-term store
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