Multi Store Model Of Memory Flashcards
who proposed the MSM?
Atkinson and Shiffrin, describes how info flows through our memory system
where do all the stimuli in the environment pass through?
passes into the sensory register
what is the coding of the sensory register?
modality(depends on sense)
what is the store coding for visual information?
iconic memory
what is the store coding for acoustic information?
echoic information
what is the duration of the sensory register?
less than half a second
what is the capacity of the sensory register?
high capacity
how does information move from the sensory register to the short term memory?
pay attention to it
how is information coded into the short term memory?
acoustically
how long is the duration of short term memory?
18 seconds
what is the capacity of short term memory?
7 plus or minus 2
what is maintenance rehearsal?
repeat information to ourselves over and over and this keeps the information in the STM
what keeps information in the STM?
maintenance rehearsal
how do we move information from the STM to LTM?
prolonged rehearsal
what is it when we get information from the STM?
response, remembering
how is information coded into the long term memory?
semantically
what is the duration of LTM?
lasts up to a lifetime
what is the capacity of the LTM?
unlimited
how do we get information from the LTM back to STM?
retrieval
what are the evaluations of MSM?
+ studies support STM and LTM are different
- there is evidence of more than one STM
- prolonged rehearsal is not needed to transfer info to the LTM
