MSM Flashcards
How does info travel
Sensory attention or lost by decay
STM maintenance rehearsal or lost by displacement
Ltm elaborative rehearsal and retrieval or lost by interference
Sensory
Encoded senses , 50-3s, 3 to 4 objects
Lost by decay and retrieved by scanning
Eg teachers instruction echoic attention> stm
STM
Encoded acoustically , 15-30s, 5+-7, lost displacement
Sequential retrieval
Ltm
Encoded and retrieved by Semantic and temporal
lifetime duration and unlimited capacity, Decay interference
Strength
I brain Damage supports distinction between STM and ltm eg hm
J doesn’t remember wife location and new home address = no elaborative rehearsal
E seaparete stores as damage to STM prevents transfer to ltm
Weakness
I took simplistic
J 2 similar tasks perform poor than dissimilar
E cannot be explained by msm as STM has limited capacity and not dep on type of info wmm better= dual task performance
Counter
I oversimplified
J some learnt min rehearsal
E memory distortion