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Contents Title Introduction Rationale Aim Hypotheses Design Independent Variable Dependent Variable Sampling and Participants Apparatus Procedure Summary table and commentary Conclusion Bar Chart Implications of Study Generalisation of findings Validity Reliability Application of study to everyday life References Appendices Title An experiment to test the existence of the rehearsal loop using interference with numbers. Introduction This study is based on the area of cognitive psychology, in particular, theories of memory. William James (1890) argued that one must distinguish between two types of memory - primary and secondary. We now refer to these as short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) respectively. This leads onto the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory which was one of the earliest information processing models to be based on James's distinction. Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968,71) claimed that memory consisted of three memory stores which were the sensory store, the short-term store and long-term storm. A stimulus received by our senses (such as reading words) passes through the stores in that order with some information being lost en...

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