Primacy & Recency effect occurs, where individuals are likely to remember the first and last events and not information in between.

Short Term Memory decays or is displaced and details are forgotten

The rehearsal (elaborative or maintenance)of the event determines if the event is remembered or forgotten

Shallow processing requires repetition for encoding, adding new or fake information into an event just after occurrence can affect what is remembered

Most of the original information they had could’ve come from structural encoding or phonemic which is involved in shallow processing which is short term retention

With deep processing adding information that gives more meaning to an individual raises the likelihood to remember an event or pieces of information

To achieve deep processing elaborative rehearsal is required which is unlikely to be gained purely based off of one time incidents meaning again that their retention time is limited

One limitation of the experiment is that the participants were all students which is not representative of the global population.

Lacked ecological validity, realism

When people were actually present at an armed robbery the wording of a question did not change their answers

That memory is easily distorted by questioning technique and information acquired after the event

Baddeley and Hitch (1974)