Multi store model

Question 1

who proposed the MSM

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) proposed the multi-store model, which describes how information flows through the memory system

Question 2

1. sensory register

Answer 2

• info enters the SR via senses
• capacity = unlimited/high
• duration = less than a second
• 2 main stores: iconic = visual info coded visually, echoic = auditory info = acoustically

Question 3

2. STM

Answer 3

• info we pay attention isn passed to STM
• capacity = 7+- 2
• coding = acoustic
• duration = 18-30 seconds
• to keep info in STM = maintence rehersal = occurs when we repeat material to ourselves

Question 4

3. LTM

Answer 4

Prolonged rehearsal if we rehearse it long enough, information transfers from the STM to the LTM
This is the potentially permanent memory store for information that has been rehearsed for a prolonged time
● Duration: potentially up to a lifetime
● Capacity: potentially unlimited
● Coding: tends to be semantic
When we want to recall or want to access information, it has to be transferred back to STM by a process called retrieval

Question 5

forgetting

Answer 5

sensory = decay
STM = decay, displacement