Multi - Store Memory Model Flashcards
When and who came up with the MSMM
1968 - Atkinson and Shiffrin
What does the MSM represent?
How memory is stored, transferred between stores, retrieved and forgotten
Explain the picture
see fact sheet
Explain the sensory register
contains 1 sub-store for each sense. It receives information from our senses, it has a huge capacity, but a duration less than half a second. Therefore, information will only pass from the sensory register to the STM if we Pay attention to it
Explain the STM
It is acoustically encoded, 5-9 capacity and a 18-30. second capacity. Maintenance rehearsal occurs when we repeat the new information to ourselves, allowing for it to be kept in the STM. Prolonged maintenance rehearsal allows the information to pass to the LTM whilst a lack of rehearsal means we forget it
Explain LTM
Semantically encoded, has unlimited capacity and long duration. To remember information retrieval must occur
What is retrieval
When information is transferred back to the STM and will continue to pass through the maintenance loop
Give a - of the MSM (DTOLTM)
doesn’t represent the different types of LTM as not all information is retrieved unconsciously, whilst others must be recalled consciously which isn’t reflected in the universal process of information being consciously transferred to the STM during the retrieval process
Give a - of MSM (MRDP)
Suggests the amount of maintenance rehearsal determines the likelihood that information will be passed to the LTM, whereas in 1973 it was suggested it’s the type of rehearsal that’s more important
Give a + of MSM (DBSTM<M)
It acknowledges the differences between the STM and LTM by showing them. in separate stores. Therefore the MSM portrays an accurate view of the differences between the 2 types of memory
Give a - of the MSM (STMSS)
MSM represents the STM as a single, unitary store. Supported by evidence that its able to differentiate and recall both verbal and non-verbal sounds, suggesting the STM has multiple types
