The Multi-Store Model

Question 1

What’s the process of the MSM flow

Answer 1

Stimulus from environment - Sensory register (Iconic, Echoic, other sensory stores) - STM - LTM

Question 2

What is the sensory register

Answer 2

All stimuli from environment
Coding - Modality specific, depends on sense
Duration - Less than half a second
Capacity - Very high

Question 3

How does information actually pass into STM from SR

Answer 3

If attention is payed

Question 4

What is STM

Answer 4

Limited Capacity Store of temporary duration
Coding - acoustic
Duration - 18seconds unless information rehearsed
Capacity - 7+-2

Question 5

What is maintenance rehearsal

Answer 5

Where we repeat material to ourselves, if rehearsed long enough moves to LTM

Question 6

What is LTM

Answer 6

Permanent memory store
Coding - Semantic
Duration - potentially up to lifetime
Capacity - potentially unlimited

Question 7

How is information from LTM transferred to the STM

Answer 7

Process called retrieval

Question 8

Evaluation of MSM
1 strength
2 Limitations

Answer 8

+ Research showing STM and LTM are different (Baddeley)
- Research suggesting more that one STM memory store ( KF amnesia, poor when heard digits, good when he read them)
- Craik and Watkins argued Prolonged reversal not needed for STM-LTM transfer