The serial position effect and memory models in psychology, focusing on Murdock's serial position curve study and related theories of memory and perception.
Key points:
- Explores the multi store model of memory by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)
- Details Murdock's 1962 experiment on memory recall
- Examines Bartlett's War of the Ghosts study (1932)
- Discusses theories of perception including Gibson's direct theory and Gregory's constructivist approach