Multistore Model of Memory
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- Created on: 05-10-14 17:15
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- Multistore Model of Memory
- Description
- The MSM describes memory as information passing through a system, with Input > Process > Ouput
- Information enters the sensory Memory once its detected by sensory organs
- Less than 1 second store
- Very large capacity
- If attended to, information enters STM
- Duration 18-30 seconds
- Capacity: 7 +/- 2 items
- Millers chunking
- Info from STM once rehearsed enters LTM
- Unlimited Storage
- Unlimited Capacity
- Studies
- Clive Wearing - Provides support for distinct STM and LTM stores
- Brain damage results in no new long term memories, but he remembers whats in STM whilst using it
- Glanzer and Cunitz (1966)
- Proved Primary and Recency Effects
- Peterson and Peterson (1959)
- FK, Carbon Monoxide
- Clive Wearing - Provides support for distinct STM and LTM stores
- Advantages
- Generated alot of research into memory
- Many supporting studies can be used as evidence
- Disadvantages
- Too simplistic
- Many studies lack Ecological Validity
- Many studies use tasks we dont normally come across
- No definition for 'capacity'.
- Rehearsal is not essential, as the model makes out
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