Multi-Store Model Flashcards
1
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Multi-Store Model (1968)
Components
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- Sensory register.
- Short-term memory.
- Long-term memory.
2
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Multi-Store Model (1968)
Sensory register
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- Information from our 5 senses is recieved by the sensory register.
- Iconic store: visual information is stored semantically;
- Echoic store: auditory information is coded acoustically.
3
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Multi-store Model (1968)
HM
Case study
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- HM underwent brain surgery to relieve his epilepsy.
- Hippocampus was removed from both sides.
- Could not form long-term memories post surgery.
- His STM was unaffected.
4
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Multi-Store Model (1968) Evaluation
Case Study
Strength
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- The loss of HM’s hippocampus only affected his LTM.
- Implies STM (which was unaffected) is not stored there.
Proves STM and LTM are separate memory stores.
5
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Multi-store Model (1968) Evaluation
Research Support
Strength
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- Baddeley found we mix up acoustically similar words with STM, and semantically similar words with LTM.
Suggests STM and LTM are separate and independent stores, as claimed by MSM.
6
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Multi-store Model (1968) Evaluation
Counterpoint
Research Support
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- We form memories related to people’s faces, names, facts, etc.
- Many studies that support MSM used none of these.
- Instead, they used digits, letters (Jacobs) and words (Baddeley).
Suggests this previous research cannot prove MSM is a valid memory model.
7
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Multi-store Model (1968) Evaluation
Multiple STM Stores
Limitation
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- KF had amnesia.
- STM for digits was poor when read to him, but recall was better when he read them himself.
- Further studies showed there could be another STM store for non-verbal sounds.
Suggests MSM is wrong in claiming there is just one STM store processing.
