MSM Flashcards
Who developed MSM?
Atkinson and shiffrin
what is the input in MSM called?
environmental stimuli
what are the 3 stores in MSM?
sensory memory
STM
LTM
what is the capacity of sensory memory?
unlimited
what are the types of encoding for sensory memory?
all 5 senses
what is the duration of sensory memory?
0.5
what is the capacity of stm?
7+/- 2
encoding of stm?
acoustically
duration of stm?
18-30s
capacity of ltm?
unlimited
encoding of ltm?
semantically
duration of ltm?
a life time
how is an input processed from sensory memory to stm?
by paying attention
how are memories transferred to ltm?
elaborate rehearsal
how are memories transferred back to stm?
retrieval
how are memories prepared to be stored in the ltm?
Maintenance rehearsal
what does encoding mean?
how a memory is stored
research + of the MSM?
1) HM (epilepsy surgery)
2) word list start middle and end
theoretical - of MSM?
simplistic
WMM shows stores are not singular
however MSM allowed psychologists to further produce WMM
+ of MSM?
makes evolutionary sense to store memory in different places FACE Validity