Multi-Store Model Flashcards
Who founded the Multi-Store Model?
Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)
What did Atkinson & Shiffrin suggest about the MSM?
There’s 3 UNITARY stores with their own capacity and duration
What is the order of processing according to the MSM?
- Info detected by sense organs and enter SR
- If attention is paid, info in SR goes to Short Term Memory
- Information moves from Short Term Memory to LTM with prolonged rehearsal
- Info must be transferred back to Short Term Memory first for retrieval
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Mentally repeating material - moves info from Short Term Memory to Long Term Memory
What is elaborate rehearsal?
Give material some kind of meaning
What is the coding for the sensory register?
Non-specific modality
Gustatory - tasting
Echoic - hearing
Olfactory - smelling
Haptic - touching
Iconic - seeing
What is the duration for the sensory register?
1/4 second
What is the capacity for the sensory register?
Unlimited / very large
Who tested for the Sensory Register?
Sperling (1960)
What did Sperling (1960) do and find?
Gave participants 3 rows of 4 letters for 0.05s
Participants had to immediately recall whole grid of randomly chosen row by tone
Participants didn’t know which would be picked
Participants recalled 3/4 letters per row
Suggests the whole grid was held in SR
Capacity is large but duration is short
What is the evaluation of Sperling’s study (1960)?
Good control of variables - lab study
Lacks ecological validity
What are the strengths of the Multi-Store Model?
Can explain primacy and recency - Murdoch (1962)
Case studies support that Long Term Memory & Short Term Memory are separate stores (HM) - Scoville & Milner
Brain-scanning techniques shows Long Term Memory & Short Term Memory to be separate
What case study supports the Multi-Store Model idea of unitary stores?
Scoville & Milner (1957) on HM
Removed HM hippocampus to reduce epilepsy
His Short Term Memory was still intact but his Long Term Memory was not
(Shows they are separate stores like the multi-store model suggests)
Who performed brain scans to prove the Multi-Store Model?
Beardsley (1977)
Squire et al (1992)
What did Beardsley (1977) find?
Prefrontal cortex active during Short Term Memory but not Long Term Memory tasks
DIFFERENT PARTS OF BRAIN ACTIVE FOR STM AND LTM
What did Squire et al (1992) find?
Hippocampus engaged for Long Term Memory but not Short Term Memory
What are the weaknesses of the Multi-Store Model?
Doesn’t explain lightbulb memories (Brown and Kulik)
Evidence showing Short Term Memory and Long Term Memory aren’t unitary stores
Most studies supporting MSM lack ecological validity (Sperling) - findings can’t be applied irl
What did Brown & Kulik (1977) find?
Found that lightbulb memories (highly emotional or shocking events) easily store in our Long Term Memory without rehearsal
MSM simplifies the LTM
What evidence suggests that Short Term Memory and Long Term Memory aren’t single stores?
KF had bike accident which damaged STM
Struggled processing verbal information but visual information was unaffected - multiple stores
What was Murdoch’s study (1962) and what did he find?
Tested how well participants could remember a list of 10-40 words
They remembered the words at the start and end of the list (maintenance rehearsal & already in STM)
