multi store model

Question 1

ao1- msm

Answer 1

made up of three parts
-stm:
c- huge d-short (2s)
-ltm:
c-5-9 items d- 18-30s w/o repetition
-sensory register:
c-infinite d-infinite

Question 2

ao3- evidence from brain scans (+)

Answer 2

-beardsley (1997) found prefrontal cortex active in stm and squire (1992) found hippocampus active when ltm engaged
-neuroscientific evidence there’s more than one memory store
-increases internal validity of the msm

Question 3

ao3- HM/Milner (1996)

Answer 3

-HM had severe epilepsy and had brain surgery to remove parts of brain
-hm’s ltm damaged (reread same magazines repeatedly) but despite this his stm was intact
-provides evidence for the two separate stores. shows one can suffer damage whilst other remains unaffected

Question 4

ao3- model is reductionist and linear

Answer 4

-brain more complex than that to store all our emotions and memories
-info stored in ltm that doesn’t follow model