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An experiment to see if interference affects recall in short-term memory.
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Tom Clarke An experiment to see if interference affects recall in short-term memory Introduction One of the most influential models of memory was the two-process model by Atkinson and Schiffrin (1968); incoming information enters the short-term memory (STM) as a result of applying attention to a stimulus. The brain makes sense of the incoming sensory information by perception, and then in the rehearsal loop, the information is rehearsed before it is stored in the long-term memory (LTM). The rehearsal loop is an important part of this model as it is what enables information to be remembered more easily and stored in the LTM. Peterson and Peterson (1959) made an experiment where they researched the capacity of the STM. The experiment was called 'The Brown-Peterson technique', which involved participants hearing various trigrams (such as XPJ). Only one trigram is presented on each trial. Immediately afterwards, the participants are instructed to recall what they...
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