multi store model

Question 1

briefly describe how info is stored in the MSM

Answer 1

made up of unitary stores

sensory register -> short term memory store -> long term memory store

Question 2

who proposes the MSM

Answer 2

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 3

explain how information moves in the MSM

Answer 3

information (from environment, such as sound) enters the sensory register. pay attention = moves into the STM. some information will decay. maintenance rehearsal keeps info in STM, prolonged rehearsal allows info to move into LTM. info in LTM must be retrieved into STM.

Question 4

what is required to keep info in the STM according to the MSM?

Answer 4

rehearsal (maintenance)

Question 5

AO3 - clive wearing supports the MSM…

Answer 5

Strength - clive wearing case study supports idea of seperate STM and LTM.
- severe amnesia means clive is unable to form new long term memories.
- has only STM of about 30 secs then forgets.
Shows STM and LTM are seperate stores.

Question 6

AO3 - clive wearing is a case study

Answer 6

Limitation - one individuals experience cannot be generalised to wider population,low population validity.

Question 7

AO3 - types of LTM / MSM is too simplistic

Answer 7

Limitation - MSM says LTM is one unitary store, research by Tulving shows there are multiple types of LTM, which undermines the validity of the MSM. Oversimplified model.
+ Clive wearing also demonstrates types of LTM

Question 8

AO3 - serial positon effect

Answer 8

Strength - primacy = people remember words at start because they have rehearsed them, recency = people remember most recent because still in STM. Supports idea of rehearsal, and everything in between in displaced.

Question 9

AO3 - KF / types of STM

Answer 9

Limitation - KF could recall digits when he read them himself, but not when he heard them from someone else. He had poor STM for auditory, but not visual: this shows that STM has different stores, and is not one unitary store like the MSM suggests.