the Multi-store model of memory
- Created by: Claire McMillan
- Created on: 21-05-13 10:33
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- MULTI-STORE MODEL
- AO1
- By Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968
- suggested the brain is made up of 3 stores
- sensory memory store
- all the sensory information is stored such as taste and smells
- Short-term Memory
- can hold 7 plus or minus 1 items, for about 30 seconds, if it is rehearsed it moves to the LTM, if not, it is lost
- Long term memory
- infite capacity and can remember from minutes to a life time
- sensory memory store
- information has to be recalled from the LTM through the STM to produce the assosiated response
- AO2
- POSTIVE
- the case of HM who had part of his temporal lobe removed to releave the symptoms of epilepsy. As a result, he was unable to make new memories. He had trouble recalling information 11 years prior but could remember before the age of 16. He could learn new motor skills
- this suggests that the STM and the LTM are in differnt places and maybe even the LTM is broken down in the 2 or more parts
- SYNTHE AND COSTALL 2003
- found that mobiles stimulate the STM but not the LTM so they must be separate
- the case of HM who had part of his temporal lobe removed to releave the symptoms of epilepsy. As a result, he was unable to make new memories. He had trouble recalling information 11 years prior but could remember before the age of 16. He could learn new motor skills
- NEGATIVE
- SEITZ AND SHAUMANN-HENGSTELER 2000
- found verbal tasks interfered with the ability to do sums, motor tasks didnt, so there may be more than one STM for different information
- the case of FK
- suggest material in STM is analysed for meaning not just sound-levels of processing may be better
- HM
- several separate LTMs as he had damage to one memory system but not others.
- SEITZ AND SHAUMANN-HENGSTELER 2000
- POSTIVE
- AO1
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