Multi Store Model

Question 1

What is the multi store model?

Answer 1

Representation of how memory works in terms on 3 stores
sensory memory
Short term memory
Long term memory
Describes how info is transferred from one store to another and how it’s remembered or forgotten

Question 2

3 main stores in multi store model

Answer 2

Sensory memory
Short term memory
Long term memory

Question 3

What does maintenance rehearsal do

Answer 3

Keep the information in the short term memory

Saying it aloud

Question 4

What does elaborate rehearsal do?

Answer 4

Moves the information from the short term to the long term memory

Question 5

How does the multi store model explain memory?

Answer 5

Shows how there are 3 unitary stores and JFK passes from 1 to the other through attention and retrieval
Senses stored in sensory memory
Maintenance keeps it in STM
Elaborate moves in to LTM

Question 6

Strengths of the multi store model

Answer 6

Shows all info will go if no rehearsal
STM and LTM encoded differently
Separate stalls

HM brain case
-STM find, LTM gone

Question 7

Weakness of multi store model

Answer 7

States STM is a unitary store however some cases don’t support this
LTM involves more than just maintenance rehearsal