the multi store model

Question 1

name the steps in the MSM?

Answer 1

• info
• sensory register
• transfer (rehearsal)
• LTM
• (to remember= retrieval)

Question 2

what is the sensory register and its role?

Answer 2

• stimulus from environment enters register
• has many stores eg. sight and taste
• info only passes to STM if you’re paying attention

Question 3

what are the 2 main stores in the sensory register?

Answer 3

• iconic memory; coded visually

- echoic memory; coded acoustically

Question 4

explain the STM?

Answer 4

• limited capacity
• stores little before forgetting
• if rehearsed, it transfers to LTM

Question 5

evaluate the STM?

Answer 5

WEAKNESS

• more than 1 type of STM
• KF had amnesia
• when digits read to him recall was poor
• when he read himself recall was better
• shows STM store for verbal/ non verbal
• weakness as MSM shows it to be unitary

Question 6

explain the LTM?

Answer 6

• stores info that has been rehearsed
• potentially unlimited
• when we want to recall its transferred to STM

Question 7

evaluate weakness LTM?

Answer 7

• wEAKNESS
• model claims LTM is unitary
• but we have different LTM eg. episodic
• model is too simple

Question 8

evaluation to support existence of STM and LTM?

Answer 8

STRENGTH
-HM brain surgery w/ hippocampus
-couldn’t form any new LTM but had normal STM
-shows separate stores for STM and LTM
Weakness as his procedural+ semantic were okay but episodic bad=different LTM