Multi Store Model of Memory*

Question 1

Name the three stores of the MSM.

Answer 1

3 stores:

• Sensory register
• STM
• LTM

Question 2

Who came up with the 3 single, unitary stores; as seen in the MSM?

Answer 2

Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the 3 stores of the MSM.

Question 3

What is the capacity and duration of the sensory register?

Answer 3

Capacity: ‘Huge’
Duration: <0.5 seconds

Question 4

What is the name of the process that is vital for information to pass from the STM to the LTM?

Answer 4

‘Prolonged Maintainence Rehersal’ is neccessary in order for information to pass to the LTM from the STM.

Question 5

Give a disadvantage of the MSM.

Answer 5

Permissible answers:
- Lack of detail regarding LTM - Tulving et al proposed the three types of LTM.

• Quantity not quality in regards to the likelihood of information passing to the LTM - Craik and Watkins found that elaborative rehearsal was more effective than prolonged rehearsal.
• Incorrectly represents STM as a single, unitary store - Shallice and Warrington (KF) suggested there may be more types of STM (poor recall for auditory stimuli - good recall for visual stimuli).

Question 6

Give an advantage of the MSM.

Answer 6

Advantages:

• HM case study, couldn’t encode new long-term memories but could encode new short-term memories - suggests different storage locations.
• Support by lab experiments (Miller, Jacobs, Baddeley, Bahrick and Peterson).