Multi-store model of memory

Question 1

Who developed the multi-store model of memory?

Answer 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 2

What stimuli passes into the sensory register?

Answer 2

Any stimuli from the environment

Question 3

What is the coding in each store of the sensory register?

Answer 3

Modality-specific (it depends on the sense)

Question 4

What is the store coding for visual information?

Answer 4

Iconic memory

Question 5

What is the store coding for sound?

Answer 5

Echoic memory

Question 6

What is the duration for the sensory register?

Answer 6

Less than half a second

Question 7

Do the sensory registers have high or low capacity?

Answer 7

High

Question 8

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 8

When we repeat material to ourselves over and over again

Question 9

How do we recall information from our LTM?

Answer 9

Through retrieval

Question 10

What is a strength of the multi-store model of memory?

Answer 10

• Research support
• Baddeley’s research
• It shows that the STM and the LTM are seperate stores and work independently

Question 11

One limitation of the MSM is evidence of more than one STM store. - Explain this point

Answer 11

• Shallice and Warrington studied a man known as KF who has amnesia
• His recall was much better when he read the digits to himself rather than them being read out loud to him
• This shows that there could be another STM store for non-verbal sounds

Question 12

A limitation of the MSM is that prolonged rehearsal is not needed for transfer to the LTM. - Explain this point

Answer 12

• Craik and Watkins found that type of rehearsal is more important than the amount
• Elaborative rehearsal is needed for LTM storage
• This means that info can be transferred to the LTM without prolonged rehearsal