Memory models - created from Mind Map

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The Multi-store model

Evidence to support 3 separate memory stores

Strengths

Weaknesses

The sensory store

The serial position effect

Areas of the brain associated with STM and LTM

Strong evidence of seperate stores

Provides an account of memory in terms or structure and process

Has clear predictions for memory

STM and LTM are not unitary stores

Rehearsal Vs Processing

STM actually relies on LTM

The Working Memory model

Evidence supporting this model

Components

Strengths

Weaknesses

Evidence for the four components

Doing two tasks using the same or different components

Evidence from brain damaged patients

Central Executive

Phonological Loop

Visuo-spatial Sketchpad

Episiodic Buffer

Direct attention to particular tasks

Determines how 'resources' are allocated to tasks

Data arrives from LTM or SM

Limited capacity

Deals with auditory information and preserves the order

Phonological Store

Articulatory Process

Limited capacity

Holds words we hear

Used for words heard or seen

Used when you have to plan a

spatial task

Visual information is temporarily stored here

Extra storage system

Integrates memory from other stores

Limited capacity

Explains observations made by psychologists

Lots of evidence to support this

Different kinds of memory

Central executive too vague

Some of the key evidence is not comparible before and after

Memory models