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What is in the multi-storey model?

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  1. Environmental stimuli
  2. Sensory Memory
  3. Attention
  4. Short term memory - maintenance rehearsal or retrieval
  5. Maintenance rehearsal
  6. Long term memory (retrieval)
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What is the sensory register?

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The information of the senses. Information is only able to be held for a short period in the sensory register and accurate images momentarily. The capacity is large and coding depends on the sense

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What is the multi-store model?

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An explanation of memory based on three separate memory stores and how information is transferred between stores

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What is attention?

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If a persons attention is focused on one of the sensory stores then the data is transferred to the short-term memory

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What is STM?

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STM hasa short duration 2-18 seconds, a small capacity of 4 items/ chunks and an acoustically

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What is maintenance rehearsal?

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Religion that keeps information in STM then eventually is stored in LTM

7
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What is LTM?

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Unlimited duration, unlimited capacity and semantically coded

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What is retrieval?

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The process of Getting information from LTM to STM to make it available for use