Multi-Store Memory Model - Advantages and disadvantages table in GCSE Psychology

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Created by: poppystamp
Created on: 06-01-19 13:04

Multi-Store Memory Model

Advantages

Supported by a lot of evidence from memory studies- Peterson and Peterson trigram study.
Can account for primacy and recency effects.
Gives a logical structure for memory processing.
Influenced further development on this theory and gives a foundation for memory processing.

Disadvantages

Oversimplified- the STM and LTM stores may have different stores within them, for example knowledge and procedure. Passive/linear model.
Does not account for individual differences- some remember the same memories clearer, with the same amount of rehearsal.
Rehearsal is overemphasised- you can recall unrehearsed information, and fail to recall rehearsed information.
Focuses more on structure than processing.

Evaluation

Atkinson and Shriffin's multi-memory store model is useful, as it does make sense and gives a foundation for further research, however it is over simplified and linear.

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Report Thu 10th November, 2022 @ 10:33

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