Memory 1✅ Flashcards
The multi store model of memory consists of
4 processes and 3 stores
Stimulus input
Where the information is detected
Sensory memory/ register
Very large capacity
Duration of milliseconds
Multimodal encoding
The four processes and the extra one
Stimulus input Attention Extra one- maintenance rehearsal Transfer Retrieval
STM
Capacity 7+-2
Duration of up to 18 seconds
Acoustically encodes
Maintenance rehearsal
If the information is rehearsed enough it will be remembered, a lot of repetition will create a ltm
Transfer
Information that has been rehearsed enough to be remembered will be taken into ltm
Ltm
Potentially unlimited capacity
Up to a life time of duration
Semantically encoding
Retrieval process
Getting information from the Ltm back to the STM so it’s available for use
Advantage of multi store model of memory
HM
Clive wearing
Kf
Disadvantages of multi store model of memory
Oversimplified
Flashbulb memory
Who created working memory model
Baddeley and hitch
What’s the 4 main components of the working memory model
Central executive
Episodic buffer
Phonological loop
Visuo-spatial sketch pad
Central executive
Main controller
It decides where the information goes, to either the episodic buffer, phonological loop or visuo-spatial sketch pad
When it’s decided where it’s going it diverts attention to that sub store
Episodic buffer
Is the general store
It’s for things that use both visual and verbal information like watching telly
Phonological loop
Controls all auditory information. It’s further subdivided into the acoustic store (inner ear) and articulatory store (inner voice). The acoustic store is for spoken words e.g listening to the radio. The articulatory store is for when you read a book
Visuospatial sketchpad
Can also be known as the inner eye
It processes visual and spatial things (how things look and where they are) for example planning going home from college
Advantages of working memory model
Supported by research such as KF
Disadvantages of working memory model
Central executive is too vague and simplistic
Fails to take into account musical memory
Types of ltm
Explicit and implicit
Types of explicit memory
Episodic and semantic
Type of implicit ltm
Procedural
Episodic memory
Type of explicit memory
Available for conscious inspection
It’s concerned with knowing that
And is responsible for storing specific, personal events and their context for example your 10th birthday
Semantic memory
Type of explicit memory, it’s available for conscious inspection and is concerned with knowing that
It’s Responsible for storing general knowledge about the world for example pars is the capital of France
