Multi store model

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  • Multi-store model
    • multi-stores
      • short term memory
        • limited capacity, acoustic, 7 +- 2
      • sensory model
        • 1/4-1/2 sec, sensory info
      • long term memory
        • unlimited capacity, forever
    • Peterson and Paterson
      • p's given trigrams to recall and had to count back three's to stop the rehearsal process
      • p's could recall 80% after 3 sec interval, but only 10% after 18 sec
      • info is lost from stm if not rehreased
      • - low ecological validity
    • +case study hm
      • has problems with ltm after brain surgery
      • does not rember personal or public edvents of the past 45 yrs
      • stm memory works fine
    • - case study KF
      • had head injury from motorbike crash
      • stm memory did not work but ltm could still be made
        • if theory was correct stm would be needed in order for him to make memories however it was not
    • disadvantages
      • to simplify

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