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1
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Name a strength of the MSM

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Supported by research showing STM and LTM are different

2
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What research supports the MSM

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Baddeley - found we tend to mix up words that sound similar - but we mix up words that mean the same in out LTM - clearly shows coding is acoustic in STM & semantic in LTM

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How does Baddeley’s research support the MSM

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Supports MSM’s view that these two memory stores are separate and independent from each other

4
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Name two limitations of the MSM

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  • Supporting studies use artificial materials

- MSM oversimplifies LTM

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Explain how the use of artificial materials is an issue of the MSM

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Artificial tasks like recalling digits - in everyday life we form memories related to all sorts of useful things (e.g. People’s faces) - suggests MSM lacks external validity - doesn’t reflect everyday life

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Explain how the MSM oversimplifies LTM

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There’s a lot of research evidence that LTM is not a unitary store - we have one LTM store semantic memories and another for episodic - MSM doesn’t reflect these different types