Confused about the "Outline psychological research of STM according to Multi-Store Model." - especially now reading the mark scheme.
I took that as research about STM that support MSM. It's why I went for serial position effect, because it shows the need for rehearsal within the STM (which is the only piece of research I knew-of that supported it). I did start writing about Peterson and Peterson to begin with, but crossed it out - because realized that was about duration, and duration isn't exclusive to MSM, as it doesn't support the concept of the model - just tells you about STM.
Now looking at the unofficial mark-scheme I'm confused - how do those studies relate to the MSM? To me they just show the STM duration, capacity and encoding...nothing about MSM? Please tell me my study won't be marked as wrong?
Anybody do the same? Do you think Serial Position effect research (Primacy and recency) is an acceptable piece of research?
Edit - I can kind of see why Peterson and Peterson, ect... would have been used, perhaps. I suppose it depends how you read that question - whether you read it as research on STM that supports the MSM, or research on STM as a single store (as seen in MSM)? Stupid stupid ambiguous sodding questions.