Multi-store model
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- Created on: 06-05-19 12:10
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- The multi-store model
- Sensory register
- Duration; different sensory stores have different durations
- Capacity; all sensory experiences
- Coding; very large and sense-specific
- Short term memory
- Duration; Between 18 and 30 seconds
- Capacity; Between 5 and 9 items
- Can be improved by chunking
- Coding; Mainly acoustic
- Long term memory
- Duration; forever (unless injury or disease)
- Coding; Mainly semantic
- Capacity; Unlimited (unless decay and interference)
- Evaluation
- Reductionist; each process has now been found to be more complex (e.g. WMM)
- Supported by brain scans (empirical)
- Different tasks use different areas
- STM uses pre-frontal cortex; LTM uses hippocampus
- Different tasks use different areas
- HM and his hippocampus case study supports transfer from STM to LTM
- Argues that rehearsal is the only way to transfer information
- We tend not to rehearse procedural memories but can still do them
- Sensory register
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