The Multi Store Model of Memory

Question 1

How many memory stories are there in the MSM?

Answer 1

3

Question 2

What are the 3 memory stores in the MSM?

Answer 2

Sensory register, STM and LTM

Question 3

What is the sensory register?

Answer 3

The place where information is held at each of the senses

Question 4

What is the capacity of the sensory register?

Answer 4

Very large

Question 5

What is the duration of the sensory register?

Answer 5

Very small

Question 6

How does information move from the sensory register to the STM?

Answer 6

Attention must be payed

Question 7

What is held in the STM?

Answer 7

Information that is needed for immediate tasks

Question 8

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 8

When you repeat the information you want to remember over and over again

Question 9

What two ways can information be lost from the STM?

Answer 9

Displacement and retrieval failure

Question 10

Who created the MSM?

Answer 10

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 11

How does maintenance rehearsal work?

Answer 11

It converts a STM into a LTM

Question 12

How does information move from the LTM into the STM?

Answer 12

Retrieval

Question 13

What are the 4 AO3 points of the MSM?

Answer 13

1) Case study support
2) MSM = too simple
3) Experimental support
4) LTM requires more than maintenance rehearsal

Question 14

Which case study supports the MSM?

Answer 14

HM

Question 15

What is HM’s full name?

Answer 15

Henry Molaison

Question 16

What condition did HM have?

Answer 16

Severe epilepsy

Question 17

What medical procedure did HM undergo?

Answer 17

Surgical removal of both hippocampi

Question 18

What happened to HM’s personality and intellect?

Answer 18

They remained intact

Question 19

What happened to HM’s LTM?

Answer 19

He was unable to form new LTMs

Question 20

What was HM able to remember?

Answer 20

LTMs formed before his surgery

Question 21

How does HM support the MSM?

Answer 21

Suggests that there are separate store for short term and long term memory - supports the unitary concept of the MSM

Question 22

Why is the MSM too simple?

Answer 22

The concept of there only being one LTM has been disproved

Question 23

What are the 3 types of LTM?

Answer 23

Episodic, semantic and procedural

Question 24

Which brain region is episodic LTM associated with?

Answer 24

Hippocampus

Question 25

Which brain region is semantic LTM associated with?

Answer 25

Temporal lobe

Question 26

Which brain region is procedural LTM associated with?

Answer 26

Cerebellum

Question 27

Why has the concept of maintenance rehearsal been criticised?

Answer 27

As it can explain why we remember semantic memories, but cannot explain why we remember episodic memories

Question 28

What tasks can't the MSM explain?

Answer 28

Dual task performance

Question 29

How do controlled lab studies support the MSM?

Answer 29

Studies on the capacity, duration and coding of the LTM and STM support that they are separate stores

Question 30

How has brain scanning found support for the MSM?

Answer 30

Provided evidence for separate LTM and STM

Question 31

Which brain region is active during STM but not LTM?

Answer 31

Prefrontal cortex

Question 32

Which brain region is active during LTM but not STM?

Answer 32

Hippocampus

Question 33

Why have some researchers argued that it's difficult to separate STM from LTM?

Answer 33

The MSM says that STM always comes before LTM, however other research has suggested that the STM is just a small part of the LTM

Question 34

What have Craik and Lockhart suggested about maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 34

That enduring memories are created due to the processing you do, not the maintenance rehearsal

Question 35

What happens to information that is deeply processed?

Answer 35

It is more memorable

Question 36

What happens to information that is not deeply processed?

Answer 36

It is less memorable

Question 37

In the study that supports the role of processing, what were participants given?

Answer 37

A list of nouns

Question 38

In the study that supports the role of processing, what were the participants asked?

Answer 38

Whether the word was in capital letters (shallow processing) or whether it would fit in a sentence (deep processing)

Question 39

In the study that supports the role of processing, what was found?

Answer 39

That participants remembered more of the words from the deep processing task than the shallow processing task