6.11.23 - Memory: Multi-Store Model of Memory

Question 1

Who proposed the MSM?

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 2

What is the MSM?

Answer 2

MODEL describing how information FLOWS through MEMORY system

Question 3

What is memory made up of?

Answer 3

THREE stores

Question 4

What are these three stores?

Answer 4

SENSORY REGISTER, STM and LTM

Question 5

What passes into the SR?

Answer 5

STIMULI from environment

Question 6

What are two examples of stores within the SR?

Answer 6

ICONIC and ECHOIC store

Question 7

What is the coding in the iconic store?

Answer 7

VISUAL

Question 8

What is the coding in the echoic store?

Answer 8

ACOUSTIC

Question 9

What is the capacity of the SR?

Answer 9

Unlimited

Question 10

What is the duration of the SR?

Answer 10

Limited (LESS than half a second)

Question 11

How does information pass from the SR into the STM?

Answer 11

By paying ATTENTION to it

Question 12

What happens to the information not paid attention to?

Answer 12

DECAYS, LOST or FORGOTTEN

Question 13

How does information pass from the STM into the LTM?

Answer 13

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 14

What is retrieval?

Answer 14

RECALLING information from LTM into STM when required

Question 15

What is a strength of the MSM?

Answer 15

SUPPORT from studies showing STM and LTM different

Question 16

Support from studies showing STM and LTM different

Answer 16

• Baddeley
• MIX UP words sounding SIMILAR with
  STM
• **MIX UP **words meaning similar to LTM
• Demonstrate LTM and STM both
  INDEPENDENT stores

Question 17

What is a limitation of the MSM?

Answer 17

More than **ONE STM **store

Question 18

More than one STM store

Answer 18

• Shallice and Warrington
• KF patient with AMNESIA
• STM for DIGITS poor when read ALOUD to him but when read digits HIMSELF STM
  better
• MSM WRONG in claiming there is just
  ONE STM store in processing all types of
  information