Multistore Memory Model

Question 1

What’s environmental stimuli

Answer 1

sensory input to situations

Question 2

What’s sensory register and explain it

Answer 2

registers the 5 senses of environmental stimuli to send to other stores.
Only remember this information when we pay attention
Large capacity
Less than half a second duration.

Question 3

what components are in the sensory store

Answer 3

Iconic-What we see
Echoic-What we hear
Other sensory stores (other senses)

Question 4

How does information travel from Sensory register to STM

Answer 4

Encoding

Question 5

How does memory transfer from STM to LTM and back

Answer 5

Prolonged Rehearsal

Retrieval

Question 6

How does information become remembered in LTM

Answer 6

Maintenance Rehearsal

Question 7

How does information recall

Answer 7

retrieval- recover information from storage to conscious awareness
Response remembering-response to information

Question 8

What is the case study involving Clive

Answer 8

Only has 30 second STM memory
Cannot make new memories

This shows there’s stores of memory as he lacks prolonged rehearsal.

pros:
Internal volatility

Cons:
unethical and non generalisable

Question 9

What is the case study involving HM

Answer 9

Had brain surgery to remove epilepsy (hippocampus which is central memory function)
Used an MRI scan to test LTM and STM
LTM never improved, STM performed well suggesting no prolonged rehearsal and different stores.

Question 10

What is the case study involving KF

Answer 10

in 1970s KF suffered brain damage.
Tested when STM using digits was read to him and when he individually read.
Showed when he read to himself memory was better than when read too.
Shows separate store for audio and visual.
Therefore MSM is too simplistic and there’s more STM stores.

Question 11

What’s the MSM support

Answer 11

Baddeley’s supportive study shows MSM model is accurate.
Clive and HM supports model as cannot make new memories
Historic importance to the model as stemmed further memory research development
Has scientific support from cognitive and biological sources.
Logical model
Internal Volatility.
Support for different memory stores (HM)

Question 12

What’s the MSM weaknesses.

Answer 12

• KF and HM suggest model is over simplified.
• Lacks complexity with phobias and rehearsal without LTM.
• Doesn’t explain memory distortion (incorrect retrieval)
• Low ecological volatility from study’s
• Doesn’t make sense in terms of LTM being semantic store (Driving)
• Cant prove LTM is unlimited
• Artificial Research
• Old model/studys