Multi-Store Model

Multi-Store Model

1. Support

   • HM
   • Clive Wearing
   • Baddeley
     • Encoding types
   • Glanzer and Cunitz
     • Recency effect is prevented if rehearsal is prevented for 30 seconds
   • Murdock (1962)
     • Primary and recency effect
     • Words in the middle were not held long enough to be kept in LTM, but too long for STM

2. Conflicting

   • Ostregaard
     • Child deprived of oxygen had damage to both Episodic and Semantic but Semantic recovered whilst Episodic didn’t
   • KF

3. Other

   • Episodic and Semantic
   • WMM
   • Reconstructive

4. Usefulness

   • Can explain why brain damage can affect memory
   • Too reductionist

5. Testability

   • Can be lab tested