C5. P2

Question 1

Who introduced the multi-store model?

Answer 1

Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

Question 2

What are the three stores in the multi store model?

Answer 2

Sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory.

Question 3

What is the multi store model?

Answer 3

Information travels through each of the three memory stores in a specific way in order to be encoded into long-term memory

Question 4

What is the MSM based off of?

Answer 4

Computer models of memory

Question 5

When is the MSM most useful?

Answer 5

Understanding explicit memory retrieval

Question 6

Which model needed and still needs to be improved?

Answer 6

Multi store model

Question 7

What is sensory memory in the multi store model?

Answer 7

Briefly recording a large amount of sensory impressions within unique sensory memory stores

Question 8

What is the visual memory store referred to?

Answer 8

Iconic memory

Question 9

What is the auditory memory store referred to?

Answer 9

Echoic memory

Question 10

Who used a tachistoscope to study sensory memory?

Answer 10

George Sperling (1960)

Question 11

What kind of study did George Sperling do?

Answer 11

Showed participants rows of letters for a split second and documented that they usually remembered 4-5

Question 12

What is partial report method?

Answer 12

Participants are not asked to retrieve and recall all of the information. Instead, they asked to recall only a partial amount of specific information

Question 13

What did Sperling find from his study?

Answer 13

Participants could accurately report specific information when desired, but were unable to report other information

Question 14

Which store last slightly longer in duration?

Answer 14

Echoic memory

Question 15

What core components did Sperling’s study demonstrate?

Answer 15

They encoded all 12 letters into their iconic memory (visual). Could directly retrieve sensory memory, and unable to accurately retrieve letters from other rows after they retrieved the letters from the initial row

Question 16

Information is held in the ____ sensory store for a very ___ duration and that information can be easily ___ due to ___ in ______________.

Answer 16

Iconic, brief, lost, shifts, attention

Question 17

How does the short term memory store work?

Answer 17

The STMS holds onto small amounts of info, but can hold it onto it for a couple more seconds (20-30) than the sensory store

Question 18

What requires more attention: getting info to the sensory store or moving info into short term memory?

Answer 18

Short term memory

Question 19

When we use our attention to move things from the sensory store to the short-term store, whatever we do ____ attend to is lost. What is attended to is ____.

Answer 19

Lost, kept

Question 20

Define rehearsal.

Answer 20

Intentionally focusing on information to keep it in short term memory longer

Question 21

Define Effortful Explicit Processing.

Answer 21

The conscious effort one exerts when attempting to focus attention on something and encode it into memory

Question 22

Define long term memory.

Answer 22

Content that has been stored in memory and that is retained over longer periods of time

Question 23

How much can long term memory store hold and for how long?

Answer 23

It can hold lots of information for a very long time

Question 24

Does most of the information from the short term memory store encode into the long term memory store?

Answer 24

No, only a tiny fraction

Question 25

What is a shallow long term memory?

Answer 25

Something that enters long term memory, but is not retained for very long

Question 26

What is the rehearsal loop?

Answer 26

Retrieving information from the long term memory store bringing it back to the short term memory to further rehearse it which then more deeply encodes the information into the long term memory store

Question 27

What is a bad part of the multi store model?

Answer 27

Assumes that information travels in a linear path