Question
Evaluate the multi-store model of memory. (6 marks — extended response)
Mark scheme — indicative content (any 6 marking points across:):
- Strength: supported by Murdock's serial position curve (1) — primacy/recency reflect two stores (1).
- Strength: supported by Glanzer & Cunitz; counting-back task abolished recency only (1).
- Strength: case studies (H.M., K.F.) show double dissociation between STM and LTM (1).
- Weakness: oversimplifies STM as one store — K.F. evidence (1).
- Weakness: oversimplifies rehearsal — Craik & Lockhart show meaning matters more than repetition (1).
- Weakness: treats LTM as one store; episodic/semantic/procedural LTM seem distinct (1).
- Weakness: low ecological validity — most evidence from word-list lab studies (1). Total: 6 marks; require both strengths and weaknesses for full credit.
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