Multi-Store Model

Question 1

Who described the Multi-Store Model?

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 2

The sensory register has a very large capacity because they are constantly receiving information, although most of receives no attention and so only remains in the sensory register for a tiny amount of time. Where does the information it receives come from?

Answer 2

an enviromental stimuli

Question 3

How is data transferred from the sensory stores to the short term memory stores?

Answer 3

By giving it attention (focusing on it, noticing it)

Question 4

How do you stop information from decaying to keep it in the STM store?

Answer 4

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 5

What happens the more you undergo maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 5

It will eventually create a long-term memory

There is a direct correlation between the better/more you rehearse something and how good you remember it

Question 6

What does evidence suggest about information you ‘forget’ from the LTM?

Answer 6

You don’t forget it, it’s just ‘misplaced’ or ‘lost’, or it was never actually in the LTM store to begin with

Question 7

How do you retrieve information from the LTM?

Answer 7

It passes back through to the STM store so you can retrieve it

Question 8

Positives of the multi-store model

Answer 8

• supportive studies to show there are multiple stores:

1: beardsley found that the prefrontal cortex was only used in STM tasks not LTM tasks (shows different parts of the brain are used, suggests different stores)
2: brain damage suffer couldn’t form new LTM’s after the brain damage had occurred

Question 9

Criticisms of the multi-store model

Answer 9

• the multi-store model is too simple - the working memory model suggests it is more complicated

• opposing studies:
Craik and Lockhart - processing is important not just rehearsal when making LTM’s