multi-store model of memory

Question 1

What is a theoretical model

Answer 1

A repersentation of the way that mental processes work, this allows psychologists to provide testable theories of mental processes

Question 2

who made the multisore model of memory what dates

Answer 2

1968
Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 3

what does the multistore of memory look like

Answer 3

environmental stimuli— sensory register—(attention) short term(maintenance rehearsal) (long prolonged rehearsal) memory– long term memory
linear model with unitary store

Question 4

features of sensory register

Answer 4

encoding - modality specific
iconic (eyes) ears (echoic)
duration (250 milliseconds) very short
capacity - potentially unlimited
millions of rods and cones at back of eye
information from the sensory register goes to STM by attention