Multi-store model attkinson and shiffrin 1968

Question 1

when was the multi-store model created ?

Answer 1

1968

Question 2

how does the MSM model suggest we obtain info from?

Answer 2

stimuli in the environment

Question 3

what happens once we pay gather info from our the environmental stimuli?

Answer 3

it is transfered to the sensory memory store.

Question 4

how is the sensory store encoding?

Answer 4

modality specific which means it is based on our five senses; hear, smell, see, touch, taste.

Question 5

what is the duration of the sensory store?

Answer 5

2 seconds

Question 6

what is the capacity of the sensory story?

Answer 6

3-4 items

Question 7

what happens once information is obtained in the sensory store?

Answer 7

if it is paid attention to it is passed into the short term memory store.

Question 8

what is the STM store’s duration?

Answer 8

30 seconds

Question 9

how is the STM encoded?

Answer 9

acoustically

Question 10

how many items can the STM hold?

Answer 10

+7 and -2 items

Question 11

how is memories in the STM transfered to the LTM?

Answer 11

through rehersal

Question 12

what is the capacity of the LTM?

Answer 12

unknown

Question 13

what is the duration of the LTM ?

Answer 13

minuets - years

Question 14

how is the LTM encoded?

Answer 14

mainly semantically but it can also encode semantically and visually.

Question 15

what happens if the memories in the STM arent rehersed?

Answer 15

they are forgotten known as trace decay

Question 16

how does the LTM transfer memories back to STM?

Answer 16

through retrieval

Question 17

what is repression?

Answer 17

when a memory is not wanted to be remebered so it is supressed in the LTM for e.g. child abuse.

Question 18

why is the LTM cue dependent?

Answer 18

because it needs cues which are things that remind individuals of the memory for the memory to be retrieved.

Question 19

what is a study that supports the MSM model?

Answer 19

Glanzer and Cunitz 1966 Carried out a study using word lists.
and found that the first words in a list were recalled well, as were the last words, but that the middle
words were not remembered well.
- They claimed that the primacy effect was because those words had been rehearsed and so were in long term memory.
-The recency effect was because those words were still in consciousness in short term memory, so were recalled easily.
- The middle words were in neither short term or long term memory and so were forgotten.

Question 20

what is a strength of the MSM?

Answer 20

One strength of the multistore model is that is gives us a good understanding of the structure and process of the STM. This is good because this allows researchers to expand on this model.

Question 21

what is a case study which supports the MSM of memory?

Answer 21

HM, has marked problems in long-term memory after brain surgery. He has remembered little of personal (death of mother and father) or public events (Watergate, Vietnam War) that have occurred over the last 45 years. However his short-term memory remains intact.

Question 22

what is the main weakness of the model?

Answer 22

The model is oversimplified, in particular when it suggests that both short-term and long-term memory each operate in a single, uniform fashion. We now know is this not the case.

Question 23

what is an alternative theory to the MSM?

Answer 23

the Working Model of Memory proposed by Baddeley and Hitch (1974) showed that short term memory is more than just one simple unitary store and comprises different components (e.g. central executive, Visuospatial etc.).