The Multi-Store Model(MSM)
Atkinson and Shriffrin(1968)

Sensory memory- evidence from Sperling

STM- limited capacity and duration, mainly acoustic coding

LTM- unlimited capacity and duration, mainly semantic encoding

Processes include: Attention and maintenance rehearsal

Strengths

-> Applications- dealing with hippocampal damage

-> Strong evidence to support claims for duration, capacity and encoding

-> Includes details of structure and process

-> Has stimulated a lot of research which leads to increased understanding

Limitations

-> Oversimplified

->STM doesn't function as a unitary story: e.g. KF (Shallice and Warrington)

-> Processing more important than maintenance rehearsal- Craik and Lockhart compared shallow, phonemic and semantic processing

-> STM is not independent of LTM- Ruchkin et al. compared words and pseudo- words involved different brain activity

SEE ALSO: http://www.simplypsychology.org/

	Created by Niki_1320 about 9 years ago

Note on AS level Psychology Unit 1, created by Niki_1320 on 02/03/2015.