AS Psychology Multi Store Model

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Created on: 03-01-13 21:15

How many stores does the multi-store model have?

Three

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What are these three stores (from left to right)?

Sensory store, short-term, long-term

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Who designed the multi-store model and which year?

Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968

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How is information lost from sensory store?

Decay

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How is information lost from the short-term store?

Decay and displacement

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How is information lost from the long-term store?

Decay, retrieval failure and interference

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What happens to the information when it is passed from the sensory store to the short-term memory store?

It is recoded

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What process allows information to be passed from short-term to long-term memory, and to also be retrieved?

Rehearsal transfer

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What type of information does the sensory memory hold?

Incoming stimuli/ uncoded sensory input

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What type of information does the short-term memory hold?

Acoustic/ visual stimuli

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What is the capacity and duration of short-term memory?

Capacity: 7+/- 2 (5 to 9) and Duration: 18-20 seconds (without rehearsal)

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What type of information does the long-term memory hold?

Mainly semantic information

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What is the capacity and duration of long-term memory?

Capacity: unlimited and Duration: infinite

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What are these three stores (from left to right)?

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Sensory store, short-term, long-term

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Who designed the multi-store model and which year?

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AS Psychology Multi Store Model