Multi-store Model of Memory

MODELS OF MEMORY

• The Multi-Store Model
• The reconstructive Model
• The Levels of Processing model

THE MULTI-STORE MODEL

2 different parts of the memory

1. Short-term memory

2. Long-term memory

THE SHORT-TERM MEMORY

Concerned with information coming through our senses. Capacity can be increased through chunking. Hold information longer we need to keep repeating it to ourselves. Code into a sound

LONG-TERM MEMORY

Information already in our memory. Three ways of coding information:

1. Semantic - verbal meaning

2. Visual - pictures

3. Acoustic - sound as in STM

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