Multi-Store Model

Question 1

AO3-Strength of multi store model

Answer 1

A strength of the multi store model of memory is that it shows that the STM and the LTM are separate unitary stores e.g baddeley found that participants mixed up the words that sound similar when using the STM but mixed up the words that have similar meanings when using the LTM this study clearly suggests that coding in the STM is acoustic and coding in the LTM is semantic. This supports the multi store model of memory as it shows that the STM and the LTM are separate stores

Question 2

AO3: Research to support

Answer 2

Research to support Atkinson and shiffrins multi store model of memory comes from a case study of Clive wearing. He suffers from amnesia in which he cannot transfer information from his STM to the LTM this supports the multi store model of memory as it shows that the the STM and the LTM are separate stores and that the information flows through in a linear way first to STM then LTM