Memory: Multi-Store Model of Memory 2024 - 2025

Question 1

AO1 Focus

Who developed the multi-store model of memory?

Answer 1

Atkinson & Shiffrin

Question 2

AO1 Focus

What type of model is the multi-store model?

Answer 2

Structural

Question 3

Key Term Focus

The MSM is described as a structural model

What does this mean?

Answer 3

The model is organised

Question 4

AO1 Focus

How can we describe the sensory register, the STM, and LTM

Answer 4

• Seperate
• Unitary

Question 5

AO1 Focus

How does information flow through the model?

Answer 5

In a linear way

Question 6

Key Term Focus

Information in the MSM flows in a linear way.

What does this mean?

Answer 6

Information has to pass through each store

Question 7

AO1 Focus

Stimuli from the environment enters the sensory register

What happens if this information is not attended (paid attention to)

Answer 7

Information decays

Question 8

AO1 Focus

Why will unattended information in the sensory register decay?

Answer 8

It has a limited duration of < 1s

Question 9

AO1 Focus

How does information transfer from the sensory register to the short term memory?

Answer 9

By paying attention to it

Question 10

AO1 Focus

Why does unrehearsed information in the short term memory decay?

Answer 10

It has a limited duration of 18 - 30s

Question 11

AO1 Focus

How does information transfer to the long term memory from the short term memory?

Answer 11

Prolonged rehearsal
(rehearsing it over time)

Question 12

AO1 Focus

How can information be kept in the short term memory for longer?

Answer 12

Maintenance rehearsal
(rehearsing the information)

Question 13

AO1 Focus

How can information be transferred from the long term memory, to the short term memory

Answer 13

Retrieval

Question 14

AO1 Focus

What is the duration of the sensory register?

Answer 14

Less than 1 second

Question 15

AO1 Focus

What is the capacity of the sensory register?

Answer 15

High

Question 16

AO1 Focus

What is the duration of the short term memory?

Answer 16

18 - 30 seconds

Question 17

AO1 Focus

What is the duration of the long term memory?

Answer 17

Lifetime

Question 18

AO1 Focus

What is the capacity of the long term?

Answer 18

Infinite

Question 19

AO3 Focus

What did Baddeley find?

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Answer 19

Participants mixed up words that sound similar when using their STM, and mixed up words with similar meanings when using their LTM

Question 20

AO3 Focus

Why does this support the multi-store model of memory?

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Answer 20

It shows the STM codes acoustically, LTM codes semantically - so are therefore seperate stores

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Question 21

AO3 Focus

What was Clive Wearing unable to do?

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Answer 21

Cannot transfer from information from his STM to his LTM

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Question 22

AO3 Focus

How do we know that Clive Wearing cannot transfer information from his STM to his LTM?

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Answer 22

When his wife re-enters the room after leaving just seconds before, he greets her as if is the first time he has seen her in years

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Question 23

AO3 Focus

Why does Clive Wearing support the multi-store model of memory?

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Answer 23

Shows the STM and LTM are seperate stores and information flows in a linear way

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Question 24

DISCUSSION Focus

How can we criticse the case study of Clive Wearing

Answer 24

Low population validity

Question 25

# **DISCUSSION Focus** **Why** is it difficult to generalise the findings of Clive Wearing?

Answer 25

As other peoples memory may operate differently

Question 26

# **DICUSSION Focus** What finding from Clive Wearing is difficult to generalise to the population?

Answer 26

Information flows in a linear way

Question 27

# **AO1 Focus** Why may information in the sensory register decay?

Answer 27

As it is unattended to, and has a limited duration

Question 28

# **AO1 Focus** Why may information decay in the short term memory?

Answer 28

As it has not been rehearsed, and the STM has a limited duration

Question 29

# **AO1 Focus** Why will information **not** decay in the LTM?

Answer 29

As it has a duration that lasts a lifetime

Question 30

# **AO1 Focus** How can the duration of the STM be **extended**?

Answer 30

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 31

# **AO1 Focus** **Why** would information be retrieved from the LTM to the STM?

Answer 31

In order to give a **response**