The MSM Flashcards
Multi-store memory
Represents how memory works as three stores - the sensory register, LTM, STM. It describes how information if transferred
Sensory register
The memory storess for each of our five senses. Coding in the iconic sensory register is visual and in the echoing sensory register it is acoustic sounds
Who created the milti-store model?
Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
What does the atkinson and shiffrin model suggest?
Memory is made up of three stores linked by processing
What is the duration for memories in the SR?
Less than half a second
What maked some information pass further into the memory store
If attention is paid to it
Maintenance rehearsal
Repeating material to ourselves over and over again
What makes information pass into the long-term memory store?
If it is rehearsed for a long time, or it is coded semantically
What happens when we recall information?
It has to be transferred back into the STM using retrieval
What are the strengths of the MSM?
It is supported by studies that show that the STM and LTM are different
What are the weaknesses of MSM?
The research into MSM use digits and letters, rather than memories we form from everyday life like peoples names and faces, facts and places.
There is evidence for more than one memory store
Pronolged rehearsal is not needed for transfer to LTM
What did Tim Shallice and Elizabeth Warrington study?
A client (KF) who had the clinical disorder amnesia.
What did the KF case study show?
There could be another STM store for non-verbal sounds
Elaborating rehearsal
When you link the information to your existing knowledge
What is a real world application of the MSM?
The case of HM
