Multi store model

Question 1

Whats the multi store model

Answer 1

Proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin and it how information is transferred from one store to another and how it is remembered and forgotten

Question 2

Describe the multi store model

Answer 2

Stimulus from the environment—>sensory register—–>STM—–>LTM

Question 3

Sensory register

Answer 3

Stimulus from environment passes to sensory register. Two main stores are iconic memory where visual info is coded visually and echoic memory where auditory info is coded acoustically.
Duration- less than half a sec
Capacity- High cap

However very little info passes into the memory system but if you pay attention all of it will pass through

Question 4

Short term memory

Answer 4

Coding- acoustically (baddeley)
Capacity- 7 +or - 2 (miller) so limited cap
Duration= 18 - 30 secs unless it is rehearsed (Peterson and Peterson)

Question 5

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 5

Occurs when we repat material over and over again. We keep info in STM as long as we rehearse it. If rehearsal is long enough than it passes through the LTM

Question 6

Long Term Memory (LTM)

Answer 6

Coding- semantically (Baddeley)
Capacity- Unlimited
Duration- Very long as demonstrated in Bahrick’s study as people still remembered their graduating classes names and faces after 50 years

If we want to recall info back to STM we call it retrieval