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1
Q

Who came up with the Multi-Store Model?

A

Atkinson and Shiffrin

2
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When did Atkinson and Shiffrin come up with the Multi-Store model?

A

1968

3
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what does the Multi-Store Model propose?

A

memory consists of three stores

4
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what are the three stores the Multi-Store Model?

A

Sensory Register
Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory

5
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what does information have to do to become a memory?

A

travel through all the stores

6
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Information from your environment initially goes to the…

A

sensory register

7
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how do you pass information form the sensory register to the short term memory?

A

by paying attention to it

8
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if information is reversed, it can travel from short term memory to…

A

long term memory

9
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in theory…

A

information can remain there forever

10
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forgetting: sensory memory

A

spontaneous decay

11
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forgetting: short term memory

A

forgetting

12
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forgetting: long term memory

A

forgetting