Multi Store Model Of Memory

Question 1

Multi-store model of memory Posits that:

Answer 1

Memory, divided, components, sequential

Information flows from one store to the next

Question 2

Sensory store

……

Short-term store

…..

Long term store

Answer 2

Attention

Rehearsal

Retrieval

Question 3

Duration

Capacity

Encoding

Answer 3

1-5. 6-30. Undefined

Unlimited. Limited Unlimited

Mostly Mostly Information is
Echoic, Echoic Stored
iconic Iconic Meaningfully

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

1. First model that suggests memory has components
2. Testable
3. Pioneering
4. Explains why some people with brain damage maintain some memories while others don’t

Question 5

Glanzer and Cuntiz

AIM

Answer 5

To investigate

a) recency effect
b) if memory has two separate stores

Question 6

Clanzer and cuntiz

METHOD

Answer 6

Condition 1: participants were asked to do a free recall task after hearing 20 words

Condition 2: participants did a filler task(count for 30sec backwards from a given number) (meant to prevent rehearsal) after hearing the words and then they did a free recall task

Question 7

Glanzer and Cuntiz

RESULTS

Answer 7

Condition 1: primacy, recency effect

Condition 2: primacy effect

Question 8

Glanzer and Cuntiz

CONCLUSION

Answer 8

First words get repeated more often and enter the long term memory (unaffected from the filler task) the last words are not rehearsed enough so recency effect disappears.
One of the effects disappear and the other doesn’t memory has two separate stores