Multi-Store Model

Question 1

Multi-Store Memory ModelComponents

Answer 1

Atkinson & Shiffrin

Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory

Question 2

Sensory Memory

4

Answer 2

information coming from our environment (5 Senses)
Stored for less than a second
Mainly sensory
Capacity : Limited to one sensation

Question 3

STM

4

Answer 3

Information from the Sensory store that is attended to enters the STM
Stored 18-30 seconds
Mainly Acoustic
Capacity : 7+-2 (5-9)

Question 4

LTM

3

Answer 4

Info from STM which is rehearsed enters LTM
Capacity - Unlimited
Mainly Semantic

Question 5

HM (1953)

Answer 5

Had surgery to cure his severe epilepsy. Hippocampus was removed and he lost his ability to make new memories (STM), but still possessed his LTM

Question 6

MSM Eval

Answer 6

Strength

• HM
• Rehearsal and Chunking (7+-2) can enhance studying

Weakness

• Integrated, cant test where one begins and one ends
• KF. Suggests more than one type of STM e.g. WMM. KF could read something and remember it, but not hear it