Multi Store Model Flashcards
How is info stored in the LTM?
Reaches our senses from the environment and enters our memory system through the sensory register.
What process is used to pick up info from the sensory register to pass info through to STM?
Attention
How can info be kept in the STM indefinitely?
Maintenance rehearsal
What is the process of thinking about the meaning of info in STM called?
Elaborative rehearsal
What are the key claims of the model?
Each store is unitary. Each store is seperate.
What is the case study for evaluation of the msm?
CLIVE WEARING
What 2 types of amnesia did Clive Wearing suffer from?
Anterogade (can’t create new memories), Retrograde (lost many of his old memories)
What procedural memory things can Clive Wearing do?
Play piano, Conduct a choir
What semantic memory things can Clive Wearing do?
Remember the names of food, Remember his wife Deborah
What episodic memory thing can Clive Wearing NOT do?
Remember he’s received a musical education
What semantic memory things can Clive Wearing NOT do?
Distinguish between the tastes of foods, remember the names of his children from his first marriage although he knows he has children
How long does Clive Wearings memory last between?
7 - 30 seconds
Evaluation of Clive Wearing (+) supports claim that STM and LTM are separate?
His memory ‘restarted’ after 30 secs which is time span of STM showing that his STM is working. However LTM is damaged as he can’t recall some long term memories. Supports that the stores are seperate which means the model is a valid explanation of memory
Evaluation of Clive Wearing (-) doesn’t support claim that stores are unitary?
He has some long term memories but not others. Doesn’t support msm as a valid explanation of memory because it suggests LTM isn’t unitary as he has lost some memories but not others - not valid
What is the study used as research to support the msm?
GLANZER and CUNITZ
What is the aim of GLANZER AND CUNITZ (1966)?
To investigate if recall of words is affected by the order that they are presented
What is the method of GLANZER and CUNITZ (1966)?
Participants hear a long list of words and then had to recall them in any order they wished
What are the results of GLANZER and CUNITZ (1966)?
Participants’ recall was best for the first items on the list and the last items on the list and they tended to recall the last few items first
What is the conclusion of GLANZER and CUNITZ (1966)?
Primary effect occurs because of stored in LTM.
Regency effect occurs because last items on list still fresh in STM.
This therefore suggests that there’s 2 seperate stores in memory.
Evaluation of GLANZER and CUNITZ (1966) (+) supports claim that STM and LTM are seperate?
Participants recalled words from the beginning and end of the list. Start linked to LTM, end linked to STM. MSM as valid explanation
Evaluation of GLANZER and CUNITZ (-) flash bulb memories?
Overemphasises the role of rehearsal in forming long term memories. Rote rehearsal is too simple and transfer often occurs with no rehearsal, eg. Flash bulb memories easily recalled without rehearsal. Material doesn’t just pass from STM to LTM by rehearsal MSM not valid
Evaluation of MSM (-) MSM contradicted by working memory model?
STM no longer single store. Demonstrates the STM is made up of the Visuo-spatial scratchpad, phonological loop, central executive
Evaluation of MSM (-) case study KF contradicts it?
KF brain damage from motorcycle accident damaged his STM. STM for digits poor when read out loud to him (sound) vs. STM digits better when he could read the digits to himself (visual). Suggests STM store isn’t unitary - not valid
