Multi-Store Memory Flashcards
Explain the 3 stages of the multistore memory
Short term sensory store
Short term memory store
Long term memory
What does the short term sensory memory do?
Inputs environmental stimuli
Transfers to the short term memory store when attention is paid to the stimuli
What does the short term memory store do?
Takes information from the short term sensory store and either rehearses it or loses it
Rehearsal transfers and encodes the information to the Long term memory
What does the long term memory do?
Information is encoded from the short term into the long term
Information is able to he retrieved from the long term memory
Information may be lost over time
What is encoding
A form in which information/memory is retained
How is information stored in the short term sensory memory
Large capacity
Lasts miliseconds if not paid attention to
Echoic, visual, or/and hapic
Modality Specific
How is information stored in the short term memory
Chunks of 7 plus/minus 2
Less than 30 seconds, lost if not rehearsed
Generally echoic
How is information stored in the long term memory?
30 seconds to a whole life time
Unlimited capacity (as far as we know)
Semantic encoding
What does the multistore memory show?
That rehearsal enables memories to be stored for longer
That there are different sections to the memory
Explanation for why we retain and forget things
When was the multistore memory created
1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
