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The Primacy Effect: research

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research shows that participants are able to recall the first few items on a list better than those from the middle

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The Primacy Effect: explains

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the multi-store model explains this because earlier items will have been rehearsed better and transferred to LTM

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The Primacy Effect: prevented

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if rehearsal is prevented by an interference task, the effect disappears

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The Recency Effect: Last

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participants also tend to remember the last few items better than those from the middle of the list

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The Recency Effect: STM

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as STM has a capacity of around 7 items, the words in the middle of the list , if not rehearsed, are displaced from STM by the last few words heard

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The Recency Effect: Last words

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these last words are still in short term memory at the end of the experiment and can be recalled

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Korsakoff Syndrome: What is it?

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amnesia that’s mostly caused by chronic alcoholism

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Korsakoff Syndrome: STM

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they can recall the last items in a list, suggesting an unaffected STM

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Korsakoff Syndrome: LTM

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their LTM is very poor

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Korsakoff Syndrome: Separate Stores

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this supports the model by showing that STM and LTM are separate stores

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Milner et al: Date

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1957

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Milner et al: what did they do?

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carried out a case study into a patient called HM who had suffered from severe and frequent epilepsy

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Milner et al: where were the seizures based?

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in the hippocampus

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Milner et al: surgery

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doctors decided to surgically remove the hippocampus. this reduced his epilepsy but caused memory loss

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Milner et al: STM

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he could still form STM but was unable to form new LTM