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An experiment to support the assumption that there are two distinct memory stores in the multi store model of memory as propos

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An experiment to support the assumption that there are two distinct memory stores in the multi store model of memory as proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968). Candidate's Name: Samantha Aloysius Candidate's Number: Instructor's Name: Sarah Carter School: United World College of South East Asia Subject: Psychology, Standard Level Date of Submission: 23.03.07 Word Count: 1422 Abstract This experiment was conducted in order to gather evidence to support the assumption made by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) that there are two distinct memory stores in the multi store model. Two groups of students from an international school in Singapore took part in this experiment. The aim was to see how well participants were able to recall the words in a list and if the position of the words affected their ability to recall the words. The obtained results show that most participants tend to recall the first and last words in the list better than the words in the...

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