... our STM. This is the model which Atkinson and Shiffrin developed: A theory using a similar structure is the primacy and recency effect. The primacy and recency effect was developed by Murdoch in 1962. This theory investigates the order in which we remember things. When immediately rehearsing a list of words just given to us, most people remember the last words on the list first and the first words on the list last, forgetting the middle words. This is because we rehearse the first few words we hear (primacy) and the last few words are stored in our STM so are remembered instantly (recency). The middle words are displaced because of the limited capacity of STM but cannot be rehearsed as well as the first words so are lost. Glanzer and Cunnitz (1966) found that if a task was given to the participant in between being given the list of ...

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