The Multi-Store Model

Question 1

What is in the multi-storey model?

Answer 1

1. Environmental stimuli
2. Sensory Memory
3. Attention
4. Short term memory - maintenance rehearsal or retrieval
5. Maintenance rehearsal
6. Long term memory (retrieval)

Question 2

What is the sensory register?

Answer 2

The information of the senses. Information is only able to be held for a short period in the sensory register and accurate images momentarily. The capacity is large and coding depends on the sense

Question 3

What is the multi-store model?

Answer 3

An explanation of memory based on three separate memory stores and how information is transferred between stores

Question 4

What is attention?

Answer 4

If a persons attention is focused on one of the sensory stores then the data is transferred to the short-term memory

Question 5

What is STM?

Answer 5

STM hasa short duration 2-18 seconds, a small capacity of 4 items/ chunks and an acoustically

Question 6

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 6

Religion that keeps information in STM then eventually is stored in LTM

Question 7

What is LTM?

Answer 7

Unlimited duration, unlimited capacity and semantically coded

Question 8

What is retrieval?

Answer 8

The process of Getting information from LTM to STM to make it available for use