Multi Store Model Flashcards
Who developed the multi store model
Atkinson and shiffrin
What does the MSM describe
How info flows through the memory
What kind of model is the MSM
Structural
What does the msm state
That the stm and LTM are separate unitary stores and that information flows through in a linear way
What is iconic
Processing visual info
what is echoic
Processing auditory information
1) What passes into the sensory register
A stimulus from the environment e,g, someone’s name
3) the two main stores are
Echoic and iconic
2) the sensory register has several stores (one for each of the senses) and coding in each store is
Modality specific
4) information in the sensory register has a duration of …….. and the capacity is ……
Less than a second / high
5) information passes from the sensory register into the stm only if
Attention is being payed
6) if attention is not being paid the information
Decays
7) STM has a limited capacity of …… and info is coded ………… and the duration is ……….. unless rehearsed.
5-9 items / acoustically / 18-30 seconds
8) if …………………………. Occurs, it can increase the length of time the info is held in the stm
Maintenance rehearsal
9) if info is rehearsed enough will pass to the
LTM
10) LTM is. Potentially permanent store for information that has
Been rehearsed for a long time
11) the LTM has a capacity that is ………… and that information can last ………… it codes information ………
Potentially unlimited / a lifetime / semantically
12) to recall information, it must be transferred from the LTM to the stm in a process called?
Retrieval
What kind of research supports the idea that the stm and LTM are different unitary stores?
Baddeley
What did Baddeley find
Ppts mixed similar sounding words using their stm but mixed similar meaning words using their LTM
What does Baddeleys study suggest
The stm codes acoustically and the LTM semantically
Why does Baddeleys research support msm
Supports view that stm and LTM are separate stores
What case study supports msm
Clive wearing
What did Clive wearing suffer from
Amnesia
What could Clive wearing not do
Transfer infrosmyion from his stm to LTM
When clives wife renters a room after leaving seconds before, what does he do
Greet her as if it is the fist time hes seen her in years
How does Clive wearing support msm
Shows the stm and LTM are separate stores and info must flow thorough in a linear way, first to stm then to LTM
Why is the case study to support msm flawed? WHOLE PEEL
Low pop val
Just one person
Unusual illness, can’t generalise to wider pop whose memory may operate differently
Limits support
Why is the msm too simplistic
States stm and LTM are unitary stores
What did shalice and Warrington do that suggests msm is too simplistic
Patient kf, suffered from amnesia,
what could kf do and not do
Poor recall when digits were red aloud, but better when he saw the visually
What does shalice and Warrington’s research suggest?
Must be different sores in the stm, one to process visual one to process auditory information, casting doubt on msm
