Multi Store Model AO1

Question 1

What are the three main components of the multi store model of memory?

Answer 1

Sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

Question 2

True or False: The multi store model of memory was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.

Answer 2

True.

Question 3

Fill in the blank: The capacity of short-term memory is typically about ___ items.

Answer 3

7 plus or minus 2.

Question 4

What is the duration of sensory register?

Answer 4

Less than half a second.

Question 5

Short answer: How is information transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory?

Answer 5

Through maintenance rehearsal.

Question 6

Which type of memory is primarily responsible for holding information temporarily?

Answer 6

Short-term memory

Question 7

What is the coding, capacity and duration of long-term memory?

Answer 7

Coding: semantic. Duration: up to a lifetime. Capacity: unlimited.

Question 8

What is the coding, capacity and duration of the sensory register?

Answer 8

Coding: modality-specific; depends on the sense. Duration: less than half a second. Capacity: very high.

Question 9

What is the process in which we recall information stored in the LTM back to the STM?

Answer 9

Retrieval.

Question 10

How is information passed from the sensory register to the short term memory?

Answer 10

If attention is paid to it.