Multi-store Model & War of ghosts

Question 1

What was the aim of Bartlett’s study?

Answer 1

To investigate whether memory of a story is affected by previous knowledge

Question 2

What was the procedure of Bartlett’s study?

Answer 2

20 british participants, asked to recall an unfamiliar story called the war of the ghosts. He asked participants to read it and tell it to someone else (serial production) and to rewrite the story at different intervals in time overall several years (repeated reproduction).

Question 3

What were the findings of Bartlett’s study?

Answer 3

We actively reconstruct our memories based on our past experiences (schemas)

Question 4

What does the multi-store model look like?

Answer 4

Information goes into our sensory register, if we pay attention it is transferred to our short-term memory. In order to keep it here we have to rehearse it, if not it is forgotten. If we elaborate on the information it can transfer to the long-term memory. To get it back from long-term memory we need to retrieve it.

Question 5

What is the role of the sensory register?

Answer 5

This is all the immediate information we receive from our senses and is held briefly in here (less than a second)

Question 6

What is the role of rehearsal?

Answer 6

If we rehearse information (by repeating it over and over) it will stay in our short-term but if we do something with it such as exam questions or cue cards, information will go into our long-term memory (elaborative rehearsal).