Multistore model

Question 1

What approach is the multi-store model from?

Answer 1

Cognitive approach

Question 2

What are the three compartments of the Multi-store model?

Answer 2

• Sensory register
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory

Question 3

How does information move in the Multi-store model?

Answer 3

Linearly, it enters at the sensory register and is passed along through a series of processes

Question 4

What needs to happen for information to pass from the sensory register to the short term memory?

Answer 4

Attention

Question 5

How can duration be extended in the Short term memory?

Answer 5

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 6

How can information pass from the Short term memory to the Long term memory?

Answer 6

Prolonged rehearsal

Question 7

How, according to the multi-store model, do we respond?

Answer 7

Information is retrieved from the Long term memory to the short term memory where we can respond

Question 8

When can forgetting occur in the Multi-store model?

Answer 8

At any stage

Question 9

What is Capacity?

Answer 9

The amount of information a store can hold

Question 10

What is the capacity of the Sensory register?

Answer 10

Very large

Question 11

What is the capacity of the Short term memory?

Answer 11

7 letters 9 digits (7+/-2)

Question 12

What is the capacity of the long term memory?

Answer 12

Unlimited

Question 13

What is duration?

Answer 13

The length of time information can be held for

Question 14

What’s the duration of the sensory register?

Answer 14

Very short, a few milli seconds

Question 15

What is the duration of the short term memory?

Answer 15

Limited - 20 seconds

Question 16

What is the duration of Long term memory?

Answer 16

Life time

Question 17

What is coding?

Answer 17

The way in which information is processed

Question 18

What is the coding of the sensory register?

Answer 18

Its modality free - not one type

Question 19

What us the coding of the short term memory?

Answer 19

Acoustic

Question 20

What is the coding of the Long term memory?

Answer 20

Semantic

Question 21

What study tested the capacity of the Short term memory?

Answer 21

Jacobs’ digit span test
- P’s would see a letter or number and have to recall it and every time the amount would increase: Avg letter = 7.3 Avg number = 9.3

Question 22

What study tested the duration of short term memory?

Answer 22

Peterson and Peterson’s nonsense trigrams
- P’s would get 3 random letters and have to then count back in 3s from 100 for a duration of time and then recall the letters: The longest they could go without maintenance rehearsal was 20 seconds

Question 23

What was the test for duration of Long term memory?

Answer 23

Barick’s yearbook recall
- He tested P’s ability to recall their class, in one group with photos and one group without: 90% could match faces 14 years later and 60% could match faces 47 years later

Question 24

What was the test of coding for both long term and short term memory?

Answer 24

Baddeley’s acoustic semantic test
- 8 groups learnt 4 different sets of words and had to recall them at the time or a week later: words which were acoustically similar were recalled worse immediately and semantically similar words were recalled worse a week later

Question 25

Why does Clive wearing cause doubt in the Multi-store model?

Answer 25

His episodic memory failed after his accident but his procedural and semantic still worked meaning it is not a single store

Question 26

How does patient HM support the theory?

Answer 26

Patient HM could access short term memory but not long term memory thus proving they were different stores