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) - (attention ) - STM - (prolonged rehearsal) - LTM

Question 2

What is the sensory register

Answer 2

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

Question 3

How does information actually pass into STM from SR

Answer 3

Paying attention

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

EV - Research support for STM and LTM being different

Answer 8

• Baddeley found we tend to mix up word with similar sounds when using STM (coding is acoustic)
• but similar meaning words mixed up when using LTM (semantic)
• supports MSM as STM and LTM are separate

Question 9

EV - Evidence suggesting there is more than one STM store

Answer 9

• KF had amnesia, STM digit recall poor when he heard but better when he read them
• meaning there’s may be more than one STM store depending on how the information enters out memory
• MSM wrong to claim there is only one STM store

Question 10

EV - Prolonged rehearsal not actually needed for STM to LTM transfer

Answer 10

• Craig and Watkins argued there are two types of rehearsal, elaborative (linking new info to existing info) and maintenance, which is the one explained in MSM
• However, elaborative rehearsal is actually needed for LTM storage
• therefore, MSM doesn’t fully explain how long-term memory is actually achieved