Multi-Store Memory Model

Question 1

What are the 3 stores?

Answer 1

Sensory Register, Short Term Memory and Long Term Memory

Question 2

Who first described the MSM?

Answer 2

Richard Atkison and Richard Shiffrin

Question 3

What is needed for information to go from the sensory register to the STM?

Answer 3

Attention given to information in the sensory register

Question 4

What is needed for information to go from STM to LTM

Answer 4

Maintenance Rehearsal, where information is repeated

Question 5

What do you do in order to remember information from the LTM?

Answer 5

Retrieval, the act of bringing back that information to the STM

Question 6

What supports the Multi-Store Model?

Answer 6

Brain scans show difference in area of the brain being used for the STM and LTM

Question 7

Why is the MSM considered to be too simple?

Answer 7

Because it believes that STM and LTM are unitary stores and have no more depth

Question 8

What did Ruchkins study find?

Answer 8

Ruchkin found that STM uses LTM and therefore STM can’t come first.