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L3 - Multi Store Model Flashcards

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What is the MSM?

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It outlines the memory process in a simple diagrammatical way

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Describe how the MSM looks?

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Environmental stimuli -> sensory memory -> STM -> LTM

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What is the sensory memory (SM)?

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Information held by the senses

It is where we passively receive sensory information

Without attention this information decays from our memory

With attention it will transfer acoustically to the STM

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What is STM?

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If STM have elaborative rehearsal they can be transferred to the LTM where it can last a lifetime

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How do the STM + LTM differ?

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In different locations in the brain

STM - in the PFC (prefrontal cortex)

LTM - hippocampus

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What did Glanzer + cunitz do?

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Did research where memory performance indicated separate stores, and locations of memory

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Explain the role of rehearsal

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Maintenance rehearsal can enable memories to go from the SM to the STM

Elaborate rehearsal can enable memories to go from the STM to the LTM

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