Multi Store Model Of Memory

Question 1

Who proposed the multi store model of memory?

Answer 1

Atkinson & Shiffrin in 1968

Question 2

What are the three key boxes in the multi store model of memory?

Answer 2

The sensory register linking to short-term memory which links to long-term memory.

Question 3

What is the duration, capacity and coding of the sensory register?

Answer 3

Duration equals less than one second.
Capacity equals very large.
Coding equals the five senses.

Question 4

What is the label for the arrow between the sensory register and short-term memory?

Answer 4

Attention – items must be given attention in the sensory register in order to transfer them to the short-term memory.

Question 5

What is the label for the arrow from the shorter memory to the long-term memory?

Answer 5

Rehearsal – items must be rehearsed regularly, maybe through the rehearsal loop, to transfer from the short-term memory - long-term memory.

Question 6

What is the label for the arrow from the long-term memory to the short-term memory?

Answer 6

Retrieval – memory can be extracted from long-term memory and brought into the short-term memory through conscious retrieval.

Question 7

What is the label for the arrow coming vertically down out of short term-memory?

Answer 7

Recall - memory can be recalled from the short-term memory.

Question 8

What are the evaluation points for the multi store model of memory?

Answer 8

+Baddeley 1966 – wordlists show the LTM in STM have separate stores

• KF - many types of short-term memory not just one box – memory of digits was poor but memory of reading aloud was good
• A lot of supporting research use artificial material – Baddeley and Peterson X2