Mulitstore Model

Question 0

3 tests for 2 separate stores

Answer 0

1) glanzer and cunitz (1966)
- serial position experiment
- STM is effected by interference tasks but LTM isn’t

2) Milner (1966)
- case study into brain injury patients
- suggested that it is possible to damage STM but leave LTM intact (viva versa)

3) Brain imaging (PET and FMRI scans)
- show different brain regions active when working on a task involving STM compared to LTM

Question 1

What does the mulitstore model say (3 things)

Answer 1

• memory consists of 2 separate stores
• information is transfer to STM to LTM by rehearsal
• STM and LTM are unitary stores that cannot be sub divided

Question 2

Glanzer and cunitz (1966) 
-serial position effect
Method
Results
Conclusion
Supports 
Evaluation

Answer 2

Method

• participants given a list of words and asked to recall them in any order
  1) immediate recall group
  2) delayed recall group (count back for 30 secs before recall)

Results

• immediate recall group remembered first and last words best
• delayed recall group remembered words from the start of the list best
• both groups had difficulty recalling middle words

Conclusion

• words at start were already stored in LTM
• words at end were still in STM so weren’t maintained and passed to LTM when distraction task

Supports
-separate memory stores

Evaluation
Positives
-lab experiment (tight control of variable)

Negatives
-lack of ecological validity

Question 3

List studies and dates for all multi store model

Answer 3

• glanzer and cunitz (1966)
• Milner (1966)
• Craik and tulving (1975)
• Hyde and Jenkins (1973)
• baddeley et al (1973)
• shall ice and Warrington (1970)

Question 4

Evaluate mulitstore model

Answer 4

• influential early model that stimulated a lot of other research
• best supports the idea that STM and LTM are separate stores
• oversimplification of memory processes