Multi-store model

Question 1

Created by

Answer 1

Atkinson + Shiffrin

Question 2

Atkinson + Shiffrin proposed

Answer 2

STM + LTM are seperate stores

Question 3

Belief that STM + LTM are seperate comes from

Answer 3

their different features

Question 4

HM

Answer 4

hippocampus remeoved to treat epilepsy -> anterograde amnesia
predicted if rehearsal loop removed

Question 5

Murdock

Answer 5

Serial positition effect
ppts remember words from beginning (primacy effect) and end (recency effect) of list and struggle with middle
distinct and unitary strores

Question 6

AO3 what is not accounted for

Answer 6

flashbulb memories

Question 7

-AO3 reductionism

Answer 7

assumes STM is the same + doesn’t allow for role of emotion in memory
- KF poor digit span if read out to him but good if he read it

Question 8

+AO3 reductionism

Answer 8

isolate + test individual element

Question 9

AO3 PET scans

Answer 9

different areas active when using different types of memory

TULVING ET AL semantic and episodic memory are located in different parts of the PFC

Question 10

Describe the MSM

Answer 10

Sensory input and environmental stimuli -> sensory store made up of iconic (visual info) and echoic (auditory info) -> attention and encoding -> short term memory -> rehearsal transfer -> long term memory -> retrieval -> short term memory