multistore model

Question 1

who designed the multi store model

Answer 1

Atkinson + Shiffrin 1968

Question 2

stage 1

Answer 2

sensory register
sensory information from environment
capacity of o.5 seconds

Question 3

stage 2

Answer 3

STM
duration: 0-18 seconds
capacity: 7 ± 2 seconds
if information isn’t rehearsed then forgotten

Question 4

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 4

verbally/mentally repeating information to keep in STM for longer

Question 5

stage 3

Answer 5

LTM
unlimited duration
unlimited capacity
have to retrieve LTM back into STM in order to recall
info normally passed to LTM when has meaning

Question 6

AO3 strength

Answer 6

• supporting case studies
• case of HM, had his hippocampus removed which was successful but also meant he couldn’t form any new memories
• evidence for LTM + STM being separate stores

Question 7

A03 weakness (factors)

Answer 7

• focuses on the logical aspects of cognitive processing
• other factors that impact e.g. emotional/social
• traumatic event you aren’t going to want to remember
• reductionist

Question 8

AO3 weakness