Multi-store model

Question 1

what is the multi store model

Answer 1

Representation of how memory works in terms of three stores. It also describes how info is transferred from one store to another and how it is remembered and how it is forgotten.

Question 2

Who proposed the MSM

Answer 2

Atkinson and Shiffrin and it consist of the sensory register, STM and LTM

Question 3

Sensory register

Answer 3

Stimulus from the environment will pass into the sensory registers.

Question 4

Two main stores of sensory register

Answer 4

Iconic memory= Visual info coded visually

Echoic memory= auditory info is coded acoustically.

Question 5

Duration and the capacity Of sensory register

Answer 5

Duration=Less than half a second

Capacity= very high

However very little of what goes into the sensory register passes further on. But if you pay attention information is more likely ti be passed onto STM

Question 6

Short term memory

Answer 6

Is known for its limited capacity. Has a capacity of 7 plus or minus 2.

Coded acoustically

Last for 18-30 seconds unless it is rehearsed.

Question 7

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 7

Occurs when we repeat things over and over again. As a result we keep the info in our STM and if we rehearse it long enough then it passes onto the LTM

Question 8

Long term Memory

Answer 8

memory store for information that has been rehearsed for a long time. The capacity of LTM is unlimited.
It is coded semantically
Duration is lifetime

Question 9

Retrieval

Answer 9

to pass memory back from LTM to STM it has to be retrieved.