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The Multi Store Model Flashcards

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What is the multi store model

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  • the first cognitive explanation of memory
  • it explains how information flows through a series of storage systems - identifying 3 permanent structures of memory
  • each stage differs in capacity, duration and coding
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Describe the multi-store model

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-We are stimulated by the environment through the sense organs. This is received by the sensory register, If we pay attention to it it goes to the STM. Maintenance rehearsal would happen here and to go to the LTM elaborative rehearsal takes place

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What are the most studied stores in the SR

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Iconic and echoic

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What is the coding, capacity and duration of memories in the SR

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  • Raw - so it can decay
  • Large capacity
  • 250 milliseconds
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Explain Sperling’s study

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  • Provided evidence of SR’s large capacity

- Flashed grid up and after images allowed participants to recall what was on there

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Give biological evidence for the SR

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  • Javitt et al found that the capacity is related to the efficiency of the nervous system
  • Also the short duration is because the physical traces in the neurones fade quickly
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What is the STM

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  • When we pay attention to what is in the SR

- It is an active memory system and has information currently being thought about

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What was the aim of Baddeley’s study on coding

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-To see whether coding in stm is acoustic or semantic

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What was the procedure of Baddeley’s study

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  • 4 lists, acoustically similar/dissimilar, semantically similar/dissimilar
  • Immediately after hearing the were asked to recall in the right order
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What were the findings of Baddeley’s study

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Acoustically similar words were the hardest to recall with only 10% accuracy all the others were between 60-80%

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What can be concluded from Baddeley’s study

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That coding in the STM is primarily acoustic. Causes the most interference and confusion so is the most important.

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Evaluate Baddeley’s study

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Posner and Keene’s study found the importance of visual coding too when participants were quick to match up A and A instead of A and a. Shows the manipulation of variables too as semantic and acoustic is the same - cause and effect

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What was the aim of Jacobs study

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To test the capacity of STM using the serial digit span method

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What was the procedure of Jacobs study

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Participants were read a list of numbers/letters. They had to recall as many as the could in order.

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What is the immediate digit span

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The STM capacity. When only 50% of the time the digits can be recalled.

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What was Jacob’s conclusion

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Numbers - 9 items

Letters - 7 items

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What did Jacobs conclude

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Limited capacity and numbers are easier because there is only 9 not 26

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What did Miller 1956 find and review

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He reviewed Jacobs study and found the importance of chunking to increase capacity. Also Miller’s Magic Number 7 - what can be recalled in STM

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What was the aim of Peterson and Peterson’s study

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To investigate the duration of the STM

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What was the procedure of Petersons study

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Participants shown trigrams and then distraction task was given of counting down in 3s. They were then asked to recall the trigram

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What were the findings of the Peterson study

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90% were recalled after only 3 seconds of counting - 5% after 18 seconds

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What did the Peterson study conclude

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That the duration is between 20-30 seconds in the STM

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Evaluate the Peterson study

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  • Variation of trigrams may cause more interference
  • Lacks realism
  • Marsh 1997 - duration in STM could be as short as 2-4 seconds if they weren’t expecting to recall information - so it can be affected by the amount of time taken to process
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What is the LTM

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  • The long term memory which can store info up to a lifetime

- They can merge and change affecting accuracy and constancy

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What did Baddeley’s study of the LTM conclude

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It concludes that in the long term memory coding is more so semantic because there was only 55% accuracy when asked to recall a list of semantically similar words after a 20 min interval and distactor task

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Evaluate the capacity of the LTM

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  • Assumed limitless because we have not been able to research that it has a finite capacity
  • Limited capacity has been found in other animals - Fagot and Cooke -found that pigeons could memorise 1200 associations whereas baboons could do 5000+
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What was the aim of Bahrick et al’s study

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To investigate the duration of LTM

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What was the procedure of Bahrick’s study

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Those aged from 17-74 were asked to complete a free recall task and a recognition task of faces and names of people they were with in their High School final year

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What were the findings to Bahrick’s study

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Those who had left HS in the past 15 years

  • Recognition task - 90%
  • Recall - 60%

Those who had left HS in the past 48 years

  • Recogntion - 80%
  • Recall - 30%
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What was Bahricks conclusion

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That memory is long lasting

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Evaluate Bahricks study

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LTM cannot be lost necessarily there may just be an issue accessing it

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What did Murdock’s study provide evidence for

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A separate STM and LTM

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What was the procedure in Murdock’s study

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He asked participants to learn a list of words and free recall them after shown fir one or two secs

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What were Murdock’s findings

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  • Importance of serial position effect

- Primary and recency effect - (serial position curve)

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What was Murdock’s conclusion

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Primary effect due to words in LTM
Recency effect due to words in STM
Words in middle forgotten due to displacement and not enough time

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What further support is there for the MSM

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Anterograde amnesia HM case study

  • Hippocampus removed caused brain damage
  • STM was unable to rehearse so no new memories were made.
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What criticisms of the MSM are there

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-Oversimplified

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