Multi Store Model

Question 1

What are the 3 separate stores in the sensory store/register ?

Answer 1

Iconic = sight
Echoic = sound
Haptic = touch

Question 2

What is elaborative rehersal ?

Answer 2

Elaborative = when we rehearse long enough and info is meaningful so it transfers to the LTM

Question 3

What is maintenance rehersal ?

Answer 3

repeat the new information to ourselves, allowing the information to be kept in the STM. Prolonged
maintenance rehearsal allows the information to pass into the LTM, whilst a lack of such rehearsal
causes forgetting.

Question 4

How does Clive Wearing help to prove the MSM ?

Answer 4

. Could remember things from the past before his illness
. Damaged STM and LTM

Question 5

How does the HM case help to prove the MSM ?

Answer 5

Brain damaged in surgery
. lost ability to form long term memories - normal functioning short term memories
^ Proves their 2 different stores
. Could remember things from past before brain damage

Question 6

What was Glahzer and Cunitzs research into MSM ?

Answer 6

. Showed participants 20 words, presented 1 at a time and then asked them to recall them - serial position effect
. Their recall was better for the first few words because they rehearsed it, so went to their LTM - known as the “primacy effect”

Question 7

Types of LTM (A03)

Answer 7

Tulving believed there was more than one store of long term memory:
Procedural, semantic, episodic

The MSM does not represent this because it sees LTM as a single, unitary store. This also
does not represent that some types of LTM can be retrieved unconsciously