Multistore Model Of Memory Flashcards
What is the Sensory Memory?
The first store in the MSM. It picks up information from the senses for a very limited time.
What is the Short term memory?
A temporary memory store which holds information that has had attention paid to it for roughly 18-30 seconds.
What is the Long term memory?
A permanent and virtually unlimited memory store from the MSM
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
Repeating information over and over again to transfer from STM to LTM
What is Decay?
When a memory disappears over time.
What is Displacement?
When a memory store runs out of capacity and information is ‘pushed out’ by other information.
What is Retrieval?
When information is recalled from LTM back to STM.
Capacity, Duration and Coding for Sensory Memory:
Capacity: Very large
Duration: Less than 2 seconds
Coding: Sense-Specifc
Capacity, Duration and Coding for Short term memory:
Capacity: 5-9 items
Duration: 15-30 seconds
Coding: Acoustic
Capacity, Duration and Memory:
Capacity: Unlimited
Duration: Lifetime
Coding: Semantic
Who designed the Multistore Working Model of Memory?
Atkinson and Shiffrin
What is one strength of the Multistore Model Of Memory?
Case studies - Clive Wearing could make new STM’s but not new LTM’s.
What is one weakness of the Multistore Model of Memory?
There is evidence to prove there is more than one type of Short Term memory store - KF damaged his verbal STM capacity but not his visual STM. Poor memory for digits to read out loud to him but could remember when he read them himself.
What is one weakness of the Multistore Model of Memory?
MSM is an oversimplification as an explanation of human memory.
What is one strength of the Multistore Model Of Memory?
Influential in developing memory research, leading to improved models such as WMM
