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The multi-store model of memory
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- 1Multi-store modelAtkinson & Shriffin's MSM describes how info flows through memory system. Inckudes Sensory, STM and LTM.
- 2Sensory registerStimulus from environment. Info from 5 senses will pass. 2 main memory stores, iconic & echoic.
Duraton = <0.5 sec
High capacity - 3Short Term MemoryLimited capacity store. Coded acoustically & lasts about 30 sec unles rehearsed.
Maintanense rehearsal: rehearse material/info kept in stm. rehearsed long enough goes in to ltm. - 4Long Term MemoryPotentially permanent memory store for rehearsed info.
Believed to have unlimited capacity.
Coded semantically.
To recall, has to be transferred to stm by retrieval. - 5STM (Shallice and Warrington)Studied amnesia patient (KF). Found his stm was poor when it got read to him, but recall was better when he read it himself. Coukd be another stm for non verbal sounds.
- 6LTM (Craik and Watkins)Found that maintenance rehearsal is wrong, that it actually maintains it in the stm instead of ltm.
Elaborative memory is needed for lts. occurs when link existing info to knowledge.
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