MSM

Question 1

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 1

A psychological approach that emphasises on internal mental processes

Question 2

What is at the beginning of the multi-store model ?

Answer 2

Environment input

Question 3

Who invented the msm?

Answer 3

Atkinson and Shiffin

Question 4

Who invented the msm?

Answer 4

Atkinson and Shiffin

Question 5

Where does the environment input information go to?

Answer 5

Sensory memory

Question 6

What happens if you don’t pay attention to the information in the sensory memory?

Answer 6

it decays

Question 7

Where does the information go if you pay attention to it in the sensory memory?

Answer 7

STM

Question 8

How do you keeps the information in your STM?

Answer 8

maintenance rehersal

Question 9

What happens if you don’t rehearse the information in the STM?

Answer 9

displacement

Question 10

How do you commit information to your LTM from the STM?

Answer 10

rehearsal/ consolidation

Question 11

What causes memories to be lost from the LTM?

Answer 11

they can be interfered or altered, due to trauma or what happened

Question 12

How does the memory move from the LTM to the STM?

Answer 12

retrieval

Question 13

Sensory memory
coding;
capacity;
duration;

Answer 13

coding; visual, acoustic
capacity; limited
duration; 0.5-2 secs
information is registered passively

Question 14

STM
coding;
capacity;
duration;

Answer 14

coding; acoustic
capacity; limited to 7 items
duration; around 18 secs without rehearsal

Question 15

LTM
coding;
capacity;
duration;

Answer 15

coding; semantically
capacity; unlimited
duration; forever, unless it is altered/ interfered

Question 16

What is the mind often compared to?

Answer 16

a computer and how it processes information

Question 17

Evaluation- MSM (+)

Answer 17

• amnesiacs loose their ltm or stm not both, so the stores must be seperate
• Clive Wearing, lost his ltm but his stm was intact
• KF lost his stm (digit span of 2) but his ltm was intact. however, this was only for verbal material
• Murdock’s research showed how memory dropped and it increases quickly which highlights that it was committed to long term

Question 18

Primacy effect

Answer 18

the tendency for people to remember the 5 or so words from the beginning of the list

Question 19

Recency effect

Answer 19

the tendency for people to remember the last 5 or so words from the end of the list

Question 20

Evaluation- MSM (-)

Answer 20

• the MSM may oversimplify things, KF’s stm was fine for visual but not verbal material, suggest there is more than one type of stm
• Berkerian and Baddeley (1980) found that 70% of people could not remember a new radio station frequency even though it was broadcast over 1000 times
• Glenberg et al (1977) participants rehearsed either 1,3 or 9 times. only 1.5% increase in recall between the 1st and 3rd condition. this highlights how rehearsal alone does not always get information in to the ltm
• Kuilik and Brown suggested not all information needed to be rehearsed to go into the ltm, if it is important “ flashbulb memory”