MULTI STORE MODEL - A01

Question 1

What is the MSM

Answer 1

an information processing model of memory

Question 2

What does it mean by the MSM is a linear model?

Answer 2

information flows in one direction

Question 3

What does it mean by the MSM having passive stores

Answer 3

Stores that hold on to information before it is passed or lost

Question 4

What are the three MSM stores

Answer 4

sensory register, short term memory and long term memory

Question 5

What key features must you know about each store

Answer 5

coding, capacity, duration

Question 6

What is coding

Answer 6

The different information formats the brain uses the store memory

Question 7

What is capacity

Answer 7

How much information a store can hold

Question 8

What is Duration

Answer 8

The duration of time information can be held in a store before its lost

Question 9

What is one thing that differs the stores from LTM OR STM

Answer 9

Store is not under cognitive control

Question 10

What happens to the information coming from the senses in the sensory register

Answer 10

It is detected and recorded automatically.

Question 11

Where is all information found in the STM and LTM initially gathered

Answer 11

the sensory register

Question 12

How Is information passed to the STM

Answer 12

by paying attention

Question 13

What coding is used in the sensory register

Answer 13

depends on the sense organ the information comes from

Question 14

What are the different types of coding in the sensory register (in every holiday greatness occurs)

Answer 14

iconic, echoic, haptic, gustatory, olfactory

Question 15

What coding in the sensory register is iconic

Answer 15

vision

Question 16

What coding in the sensory register is echoic

Answer 16

sound

Question 17

What coding in the sensory register is haptic

Answer 17

touch

Question 18

What coding in the sensory register is gustatory

Answer 18

taste

Question 19

What coding in the sensory register is olfactory

Answer 19

smell

Question 20

What is capacity like in the sensory register

Answer 20

• very large
  -has to keep all sense impressions for all senses in the moment
  -only the things you pay attention to are passed onto STM

Question 21

What is duration like in the sensory register

Answer 21

very short as low as 250 millisecond

Question 22

Why can information not be retained for very long in the sensory register

Answer 22

because so much information is held

Question 23

What does STM do

Answer 23

receives information from the sensory register by paying attention

Question 24

How does information from STM get passed to LTM

Answer 24

through rehearsal

Question 25

What are two types of rehearsal that we use in order to pass information from the STM to LTM

Answer 25

maintenance rehearsal or elaborative rehearsal

Question 26

what is maintenance rehearsal

Answer 26

repeating the information

Question 27

What is elaborative rehearsal

Answer 27

linking to information that is already in LTM

Question 28

How is information passed back from the LTM

Answer 28

retrieval

Question 29

How can information be lost

Answer 29

displacement (new information) or decay (lost over time)

Question 30

How is information in the STM coded And stored

Answer 30

acoustically - in the form of sound or spoken words

Question 31

What is capacity like in the STM

Answer 31

Miller suggested small specifically 7items plus or minus 2

Question 32

How an the small capacity of STM improve

Answer 32

chunking, making small sets or groups of items of information

Question 33

What is the duration of the short term memory

Answer 33

short, 18-30 seconds however it can be extended by verbal rehearsal

Question 34

How long does information stored in the LTM last

Answer 34

may last permanently

Question 35

How much information can the LTM contain

Answer 35

May be unlimited to the amount of information it can contain

Question 36

How does information come into the LTM

Answer 36

rehearsal from the STM

Question 37

What needs to happen in able to use information in LTM

Answer 37

needs to be passed back to the STM by retrieval

Question 38

How is information in the LTM coded/stored

Answer 38

semantically - in the form of meaning

Question 39

What's the capacity like in the LTM

Answer 39

no limit in the amount of information that can be stored

Question 40

Why do we lose information from our LTM

Answer 40

not because the LTM has ran out of space but because it may not be accessible

Question 41

What is the duration like in the LTM

Answer 41

potentially unlimited