Multi Store Model

Question 1

Describe the multi store model

Answer 1

Sensory information, eg sights and sounds > sensory memory, if not encoded it decays > attention > STM > lost displacement or decays pushed out> mantance rehearsal > elab rehearsals > LTM, lost by retrievable failure or retrieved into STM

Question 2

What is the capacity and duration of stm

Answer 2

7 +/- 2

18-30 sec

Question 3

What is the duration and capacity of LTM

Answer 3

Capacity unlimited

D up to a life time

Question 4

What are some positives of the multi store model

Answer 4

Case story’s to support
Clive wearing
Hm - memory loss is selective
Supports idea of Sep store

Only model that shows whole of memory

Brain scans are scientific evidence that supports

Glazer and cutliz 1966 recall seriel position effect

Question 5

What are some negatives of the model

Answer 5

2 simplistic

Case study’s that support are individual to a person so can’t generalise

Know that LTM is divided into semantic procedural and episodic proposed by ruling

Said it was unitary and passive and both untrue

Question 6

Who was the multi store model developed by and when?

Answer 6

Atkinson and Shriffrin 1968