multi store model

Question 1

who was the psychologist who came up with the multistore model

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffin

Question 2

what is the flow of information in the multistore model

Answer 2

1. environmental stimuli
2. sensory register
3. acoustically codes into stm
4. goes through maintenance rehearsal and semantically codes into LTM
5. then is retrieved to Stm
6. then recalled

Question 3

what is the strengths of the model

Answer 3

1) lots of evidence to support. Bahrick = duration of LTM and how info is retrieved to STM + Baddeley importance of coding
2) primary recency effect. words at start rehearsed into LTM words at end are in STM

Question 4

what are the weaknesses of the model

Answer 4

1) Morris challenges the importance of rehearsal. semantic coding - more interesting
2) Stores are shown simplistically. KF recall visual info but couldn’t recall verbal info - potentially more than one store in STM