MSM Evaluation

MSM Evaluation

1. Brown and Peterson (1958) found that blocking rehearsal resulted in poor recall

2. Rehearsal of information does not necessarily lead to better recall

   • Craik and Watkins found that recall was unrelated to neither duration in STM nor the number of times words were rehearsed

3. Brain damged patients provide stong evidence for the STM and LTM distinction as brain damage can affect one store and not the other

4. Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) research into the primacy recency effect found seperate STM and LTM

5. Others have criticised lumping all the different types of LTM together as if they were the same

   • Critics argue the model doesnt differentiate enough between procedural, semantic and declarative memories

6. Much research has used words and digits in stimulus lists that may not be a realistic use of memory

7. Laboratory research may give an unnatural view of memory as it is in an artificial setting and task