Important to our understanding of short term memory

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Take one of these areas and tell us what it is and why it is important to our understanding of STM. (SHORT TERM MEMORY)

1. the Brown/Petersen technique, which is still used. It gave us info about the duration of STM and the important process of rehearsal

2. the serial position effect, which includes the primacy and the recency effect. These gave us evidence for the existence of 2 memories - STM and LTM.

3. Wicken's work with semantic similarity of item and proactive interference in STM. This gives us info about the types of codes we employ in STM (meaning is the material in an acoustic code, a visual code, or a semantic code, or are all 3 possible).

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