Multi-store Model Of Memory

Question 1

What are the key components of the MSM?

Answer 1

1. Stimulus from the environment
2. Sensory register
3. STM
4. LTM

Question 2

What does the sensory register do, and what is it made up of ?

Answer 2

The sensory register is the part of the memory that comprises serval registers.
It is made up of ionic memory- visual memory
Echoic memory- stored acoustically (sound/hearing)

Question 3

What is the duration of the sensory register like?

What is the capacity of the sensory register like?

Answer 3

It is very brief , a few seconds.

It has a very high capacity.

Question 4

What do we need to do to keep material in our STM and eventually transferring it into our a LTM.

Answer 4

Maintenance rehearsal- when we repeat a piece of info over and over - says on out STM ask long as we rehearse it- eventually moves to LTM.

Question 5

What does the act of retrieval do for info in the LTM.

Answer 5

It transfers information from the LTM into the STM so we can recall it.