Memory- Multi Store Model

Question 1

Coding

Answer 1

The way in which information is changed to be stored in memory

Question 2

Capacity

Answer 2

The amount of info a store can hold

Question 3

Duration

Answer 3

How long a store can hold memories for

Question 4

Serial recall

Answer 4

Memory testing method where participants need to repeat information in order

Question 5

Stores in the multi store model

Answer 5

Sensory register, Short term memory, Long term memory

Question 6

Sensory memory capacity

Answer 6

Unlimited

Question 7

Sensory memory duration

Answer 7

1.5-2 seconds

Question 8

Sensory memory coding

Answer 8

Sense specific (depends on stimuli)

Question 9

Short term memory coding

Answer 9

Acoustic

Question 10

Short term memory capacity

Answer 10

7+-2 items

Question 11

Short term memory duration

Answer 11

18-30 seconds

Question 12

Long term memory coding

Answer 12

Semantic

Question 13

Long term memory capacity

Answer 13

Unlimited (potentially)

Question 14

Long term memory duration

Answer 14

Lifetime (49 yrs)

Question 15

How does information go from the sensory to short term store

Answer 15

Attention

Question 16

How does information pass from short term to long term memory

Answer 16

Maintenance rehersal

Question 17

How does information stay in the STM

Answer 17

Rehearsal loop

Question 18

How is information moved from long term to short term memory

Answer 18

Retrieval

Question 19

How is information lost from the sensory memory

Answer 19

Decay

Question 20

How is information lost from the short term memory

Answer 20

Decay and displacement

Question 21

How is information lost from long term memory

Answer 21

Retrieval failure or interference

Question 22

Decay

Answer 22

When a memory disappears due to not being rehearsed

Question 23

Displacement

Answer 23

When a store runs out of capacity so older information is forgotten

Question 24

Study supporting STM’s capacity

Answer 24

Miller

Question 25

Miller study

Answer 25

Used a serial recall task,
Found most people could recall between 5 and 9 items (‘Miller’s magic number’)

Question 26

Study supporting STM’s duration

Answer 26

Peterson & Peterson

Question 27

Peterson & Peterson study

Answer 27

Made participants remember a 3 letter trigram and count backwards in 3s,
90% were accurate after 3 seconds but only 2% were after 18 seconds

Question 28

Study supporting LTM’s duration

Answer 28

Bahrick

Question 29

Bahrick study

Answer 29

Asked people to recall names of their school year after 49 years,
70% were accurate with cues from the yearbook

Question 30

Study supporting STM & LTM coding

Answer 30

Baddeley

Question 31

Baddeley study

Answer 31

Participants had to learn acoustically similar/dissimilar words and semantically similar/dissimilar words.
Performance was worse on semantically similar when recalled after a long time, and worse on acoustically similar words after a short time.

Question 32

Study supporting separate memory stores

Answer 32

Glanzer and Cunitz

Question 33

Glanzer and Cunitz study

Answer 33

Serial positioning effect discovered where people are more likely to remember items at the beginning and end of a list showing the primacy and recency effects.

Question 34

Case study contradicting single STM store

Answer 34

Patient KF

Question 35

Patient KF case study

Answer 35

Had a motorcycle accident leaving a normal visual STM and a damaged verbal STM

Question 36

Case study contradicting single LTM store

Answer 36

Patient HM

Question 37

Patient HM case study

Answer 37

Had hippocampus removed and could not form new explicit (semantic and episodic) memories but could form implicit (procedural)

Question 38

Contradicting studies for MSM

Answer 38

Patient KF
Patient HM

Question 39

Supporting studies for MSM

Answer 39

Baddeley
Glanzer & Cunitz