4.2 Memory - The Multi Store Model Of Memory

Question 1

Who came up with the MSM of Memory?

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)

Question 2

What is the MSM model?

Answer 2

> environmental stimuli > SENSORY MEMORY >attention> SHORT TERM MEMORY >elaborative rehearsal> LONG TERM MEMORY (Its easier to understand if you look it up)

Question 3

Duration of Sensory Memory

Answer 3

Under 1 second

Question 4

Coding of Sensory Memory

Answer 4

Modality Specific (Depends on how the information is presented)

Question 5

Capacity of Sensory Memory

Answer 5

Very Large

Question 6

Coding of STM and the theorist

Answer 6

Acoustic - Baddeley

Question 7

Capacity of STM and the theorist

Answer 7

7+/-2 - Jacobs

Question 8

Duration of STM and the theorist

Answer 8

18 - 30 seconds - Peterson and Peterson

Question 9

Coding of LTM and the theorist

Answer 9

Semantic - Baddeley

Question 10

Capacity of LTM and the theorist

Answer 10

Unlimited - no theorist but is generally accepted and this

Question 11

Duration of LTM and the theorist

Answer 11

Limitless or infinite - Bahrick et al

Question 12

What is elaborate rehearsal?

Answer 12

Adding meaning to something so it enters the LTM

Question 13

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 13

Repeatedly thinking about something and paying attention to it

Question 14

What case study supports MSM?

Answer 14

Study of HM because he was able to recall events from the long term memory yet showed issues recalling recent events and rehearsing information demonstrating that there is numerous memory stores

Question 15

What case study contradicts MSM?

Answer 15

KF as he was able to recall digits when reading them but struggled when they were read to him demonstrating there is different areas of the brain fro different aspects of STM so MSM may be too simplistic

Question 16

What 2 pieces of research supports the multi store model of memory?

Answer 16

. Brown and Peterson technique (trigrams) as it states rehearsal needed for info to be passed from STM to LTM
. Murdochs primacy and recency effect as it shows that info that isn’t maintenance rehearsed is forgotten