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Slate flooring like most natural tiles will be sealed once installed and this will protect them from any stains and marks. Slate can be purchased in many different colours, shades and sizes and it really depends on where you are installing them and your own personal preferences as to the type you will select. It has since been argued that underlying systems produce the difference in results in different performance tasks. Waugh and Norman (1965, cited in Baddeley, A. 1997) used the term primary memory and secondary memory to refer to short-term and long-term memory systems, respectively. Primary and secondary memories are different to STM and LTM because they refer to the storage of information, rather than the stores themselves that hold the information.
Melton's study has provided important evidence into a unitary memory store, but many studies since have provided evidence for separate memory stores. Glanzer and Cunitz (1966, cited in Baddeley, 1997) showed, using free recall, that items from the beginning and end of a list are recalled better than those in the middle. This is called the primacy-recency effect and can be simply explained by the first words being transferred to the LTM and easily retrieved from there during recall. The end words are still available from the STM and so are recalled easily. When the list is followed by a brief filled delay, the recency effect cannot be seen. This is because the filled delay has resulted in words in short-term storage being unable to be rehearsed. They cannot be transferred to LTM and so they decay. Glanzer (1972, cited in Baddeley, 1997) showed that recency effect is unaffected by many variables including familiarity and presentation rate of the word, the age of the participant or the ability to perform other tasks at the same time. These variables have instead been shown to affect primacy effect.
Some of the strongest evidence in support of separate memory stores comes from amnesia patients. Milner (1966, cited in Baddeley, 1997) studied a patient called H.M who had suffered brain damage after surgery to treat epilepsy. H.M could remember events from early on in his life, but he had severe difficulties with recent memories and new information. He was able to remember events and experience from early life, such as how to mow a lawn, but could not learn ongoing experience or remember recent events, such as where he left the lawnmower. Although he was severely impaired in learning new information, his short-term memory span was intact. This suggests a combination of a defective secondary store and a normal primary store. If memory was unitary, both stores would be defective and there would not be a difference between the LTM memories of early life and ongoing experience.
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