Multi Store Model of Memory

Question 1

What are the 2 AO1s?

Answer 1

AO1 - Intro to MMM
AO1 - MMM specific info

Question 2

AO1 - Intro to MMM
Key terms

Answer 2

• Attkinson and Shiffrin (1968)
• attention, transfer
• decay, rehearse

Question 3

AO1 - MMM specific into (basically the whole table)

Answer 3

Sensory register

Encoding
The format the information is stored in

Attention (sperling 1960)

Acoustically - sound
(Baddeley 1966a)

Semantically- meaning (baddedley 1966b)

Capacity
The amount of info that can be held

Limited (sperling 1960)
7+ or -2 items (miller) 1956 (jacobs) 1887

unlimited

Duration
The length of time information can be held

Limited (sperling 1960)

Aprox 18 secs (peterson and peterson) 1959

Approx. a lifetime (Bahrick) 1975

Question 4

Who proposed the MMM?

Answer 4

Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)

Question 5

What are the 3 AO3s?

Answer 5

• Distinct stores of LTM and STM (+)
• Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) (+)
• Contradictory research (-) (KF)
• Information in model vs nature of model

Question 6

Distinct stores of LTM and STM (+)

Answer 6

Clive Wearing suffered from brain damage which inhibited his ability to transfer information from the STM to the LTM, however he could retrieve old memories but not create new ones, if memory were to be one store, both STM and LTM would’ve been damaged

substantiated irl -> core claim -> distinct stores -> credibility -> theoretical

Question 7

Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) (+)

Answer 7

participants tended to remember the 1st 5 words and the last 5 words of the list given due to the primacy and recency effect

core on rehearsal validated -> controlled -> scientific credibility -> elaborative rehearsal -> plausibility

Question 8

KF Contradictory (-)

Answer 8

patient KF suffered from brain damage which impacted verbal information in the STM but not visual information (controlled study btw)

simplisic -> challenge -> limit explanatory -> plausibility -> modified?

Question 9

AO3 – information in model vs nature of model

Answer 9

For instance, it could be possible that some material is easier to remember because it is more interesting

underemphasised-> plausibility -> credibility

Question 10

MMM vs WMM 2 points

Answer 10

The Multi-store model illustrates STM as a single store but the Working Memory Model on the contrary, explains short-term memory as having three components to it.

The Multi-store model describes the loss of memory through decay, which the Working Memory model doesn’t.