![]() ![]() ![]() One of the theory suggesting how the memory works is the multi-store model (Atkinson & Shiffrin 1968). The result of the experimental group shows that the distraction task does play a role in the experiment, as the primacy effect decreases when compared to the control group.Īt cognitive level of analysis, we learn that memory is not always reliable and that there are many interpretation of how memory works. As the original experiment suggests that a distraction task would interfere with individuals primacy effect in terms of diminishing it. With the distraction task where we may see the short term memory would allow only the ending series of words (recency) rather than the beginning series of words (primacy). The tendency which one would recall better in the beginning series of words as it being the first thing the participants would hear and the ending series of words as it being the last thing the participants would hear. The participants were divided into two groups in order to see the difference between the normal recall ability of an individual and the additional factor of a distraction task as this was the aim of the experiment for Glanzer and Cunitz. ![]() This experiment was the replication of Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) which was set in an international school settings with students being the participants. ![]()
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