... many different psychologists in various different ways. Memory is generally defined as "the capacity to store and later recall or recognise events that were previously experienced" Atkinson and Schriffon's multistore model of memory suggests that memory has three separate stores of which information is passed through. The primacy and recency effect supports the multistore model. Twenty words were given to participants and the data showed that words at the beginning were likely to be recalled as they were stored in the long term memory (primacy effect). Also words at the end were likely to be recalled as they are still present in the short term memory (recency effect). Therefore providing evidence that there are separate stores within memory. According to a number of studies of research which have previously been carried out by psychologists there are different methods of organisation in the long term memory. The method being investigated is ...

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