The multi store model of memory

Question 1

Multi Store Model

Answer 1

a representation of how memory works in terms of 3 stores called sensory register, short term memory and long term memory.
It also describes how information is transferred from one store to another, how it is remembered and how it is forgotten.

Question 2

Sensory Register

Answer 2

A stimulus from an environment will pass into the sensory registers.
2 main stores are called ionic memory (visual information is coded visually) and echoic memory (information is coded acoustically).

Duration is less than half a second.
High capacity

Question 3

Short-Term memory (STM)

Answer 3

Limited capacity store between 5-9 items

Maintenance rehearsal occurs when we repeat material to ourselves over and over again.
Prolonged rehearsal leads to LTM

Question 4

Long-Term memory (LTM)

Answer 4

coded semantically

Although this material is stored in LTM, when we want to recall it, it has to be transferred back into STM by retrieval