Multi Store Model of Memory

Question 1

Who devised the multi store model and in which year?

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968

Question 2

What does the multi store model explain?

Answer 2

How the sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory link together, processing information

Question 3

What does the multi store model show?

Answer 3

The forward flow of information from sensory input, to sensory memory, to short term memory, to long term memory and finally as an output

Question 4

What could be an output in the multi store model?

Answer 4

A person recalling the information to use

Question 5

How is sensory information passed from sensory memory to short term memory?

Answer 5

Via attention

Question 6

How is information passed from STM to LTM

Answer 6

Rehearsal

Question 7

How is information passed back from LTM to STM

Answer 7

Retrieval

Question 8

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 8

A surface level repetition of the information

Question 9

What does elaborative rehearsal involve?

Answer 9

Deeper processing

Question 10

What is a strength of the multi store model?

Answer 10

Pioneering model of memory that inspired further research and other influential models such as the working memory model

Question 11

What is a limitation of the multi store model of memory? (Oversimplification)

Answer 11

Model is arguably over simplified as evidence suggests that there are multiple short and long term memory stores

Question 12

What is a limitation of the multi store model of memory? (LTM capacity)

Answer 12

It is only assumed that LTM has an unlimited capacity as research has been unable to measure this accurately