Multi-store-model of memory

Question 1

WHAT IS MEMORY AND THE FUNCTION OF IT

Answer 1

• The mental functions of retaining information about stimuli, events, images, ideas, etc. after the original stimuli are no longer present.

Question 2

IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY (QUOTES)

Answer 2

“A man’s memory is all that stands between him and chaos” A. L. Korsakoff

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.” Luis Buñuel

Question 2

AMNESIC PATIENTS
-CLIVE WEARING

Answer 2

SEVERE ANTEROGRADE AND RETROGADE AMNESIA: Clive Wearing suffered frontal and temporal lobe brain damage, especially of the hippocampus, caused by viral encephalitis in 1985

He remembers little about events in his life (other than his love for his wife)

Each time he sees his wife he greets her as if it has been

Clive Wearing: inability to remember or form any long term episodic memories

He still can still remember language, music, and can store enough in the short term to be able to have a short conversation..

Question 3

STRUCTURE OF MEMORY

Answer 3

William James (1890) - Attempted to delineate memory systems in terms of the relationship of their contents to conscious awareness:

Question 4

PRIMARY MEMORY (STM) & (LTM)

Answer 4

PRIMARY MEMORY
-INFO IN AN ACTIVE STATE
-CONSCIOUS MEMORY FOR WHAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT NOW

SECONDARY MEMORY (LTM)
-INFORMATION IN AN INACTIVE STATE
-UNCONSCIOUS REPOSITORY OF INFORMATION

• This original structure was proposed by William James and has been developed over the years

Question 5

1)EVIDENCE FOR SEPARATE LTM & STM SYSTEMS

Answer 5

Differences in capacity
Digit span (Miller, 1958)
Primacy and recency effects
Serial position task (Glanzer & Kunitz, 1966)
Neuropsychological evidence
Amnesia (HM; Scoville & Milner, 1957)

Question 6

2) EVIDENCE FOR SEPARATE LTM & STM SYSTEMS -
SERIAL POSITION TASK (GLANZER & KUNITZ, 1966)

Answer 6

Serial position task (Glanzer & Kunitz, 1966)
Asked participants to recall a list of words in any order