Multi Store Model

Question 1

What are the 3 separate stores in the sensory store/register ?

Answer 1

Iconic = sight
Echoic = sound
Haptic = touch

Question 2

What is elaborative and maintenance rehersal ?

Answer 2

Elaborative = when we rehearse long enough and info is meaningful so it transfers to the LTM

Maintenance = when we repeat material to ourselves over and over

Question 3

How does Clive Wearing help to prove the MSM ?

Answer 3

. Could remember things from the past before his illness
. Damaged STM and LTM

Question 3

How does the HM case help to prove the MSM ?

Answer 3

Brain damaged in surgery
. lost ability to form long term memories - normal functioning short term memories
^ Proves their 2 different stores
. Could remember things from past before brain damage

Question 4

What was Glahzer and Cunitzs research into MSM ?

Answer 4

. Showed participants 20 words, presented 1 at a time and then asked them to recall them - serial position effect
. Their recall was better for the first few words because they rehearsed it, so went to their LTM - known as the “primacy effect”