critically consider whether evidence justifies a distiction between STM and LTM

Diane Woodward 10th September 1999 Critically consider whether evidence justifies a distinction between STM and LTM Memory is a working process that enables us to learn and benefit from past experience. There are three stages of process, registration, storage and retrieval. Some Psychologists have undertaken research to show there is a distinction between STM and LTM. Atkinson and Shiffrin introduced the Multi Store Model that supports the fact that the STM and the LTM are different. …

…not totally disagree with the model but think that it is too simplistic for such an complex study. The LTM supports, but takes the idea of a distiction a step further by making a distinction between LTM in itself as the following diagram explains:- COHEN AND SQUIRE TULVING 1980 1985 Declarative memory Episodic memory ‘knowing that’ its broken ‘persoanl events/ episodes’ this down into Semantic memory ‘knowledge about the world’ Proceduaral memory ‘knowing how’ Procedual memory