memory
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Hansen and lunita ( 1966)
Aim :
To
investigate serial position effect with and without interference from a filler
activity .
Pantai
pants :
46 enlisted
aumy men
-
Method :
Experiment repeated ,
measures
design
Puoceoluue :
A of 15 uouol lists
series mad out to
participants After hearing participants
ueue
-
.
ulue www.uueol to do fine recall task There were three conditions
a .
:
e) fun recall task immediately after
a
heaving the crowds on the list
a) filler aetuity ( counting out loud backwounds from a random number foie 10 )
a s
,
then five recall
3) the filler actiiity but foie 30s
same
,
Each 15 lists 5 for each of 3 conditions The order of the
participant given was , .
conditions uandom The
dependent unviable the proportion of uouob
was .
was connect
ly
recalled , separatelyfor each of the 15 positions of the cloud the list on
Results :
1) Yn the condition without a filter task both of the aspects of the serial position effect
,
could be observed effect ( :
were better at
primacy participants
uouds at
remembering
the start of the list) and recency effect ( participants were also better at
remembering
uouds at the end of the list) .
, 2) In the condition filler task the primacyeffect stayed but the
recency effect
with the ,
the 30s condition than
dissapeaueol -
moue so in in the 10s condition .
Conclusion :
the
study supports the multi stone memory model -
:
LTM and STM two separate memory stones
•
owe
•
Information moves
from STM to LIM if it is rehearsed but ,
gradually decays if it is not .
Explanation :
As
participants hear winds on the list one
by one
,
they may start rehearsing them
sub
woolly .
As they owe
getting closer to the middle of the list it becomes impossible to
repeat all the uouob the first words the list repeated often and they
,
so on are moue ,
enter LTM That why primacy effect does not disappear
.
after the interference task
is even .
when the
participants recall uouob immediately after the puesentation of the list the ,
be to remember because
last several winds the list
may easy they have just
on
entered STM With the presence .
of the interference task when rehearsal is
suppressed ,
these traces That is the condition with the
decay .
why recency effect disappears in
interference task .