Multi-Store Model AO3

Question 1

What is the primacy-recency effect?

Supporting evidence

Answer 1

Words from the beginning and end of the list are remembered.
T/F
Beginning= LTM
End= STM

Question 2

How does HM support the MSM?

Answer 2

He remembered everything before his operation but nothing after it.
T/F
Supports the idea of separate stores.

Question 3

How does Clive Wearing support the MSM?

Answer 3

After his hippocampus was affected by a virus he could only remember things moment to moment in his STM.
T/F
Supports the idea of rehearsal.

Question 4

What was the real memory experiment that tried to show MSM?

Answer 4

It was in a lab (DC), artificial env. Low Eco Val.

Used artificial tasks (remembering trigrams and counting back in 3s) Low Eco val.

Question 5

What does the MSM overemphasise?

Answer 5

Rehearsal. There is such a thing as flashbulb memory (9/11) which doesn’t require rehearsal but can still be accurately recalled.

Question 6

What was the first model of memory?

Answer 6

The MSM!

This is good because it gives a foundation for other memory models to be developed

Question 7

What is the debate for MSM?

Answer 7

Reductionist- the brain is too complex for the MSM