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6. Who came up with the multi-store memory model?

  • Atkinson and Shiffrin
  • Peterson and peterson
  • Baddeley and Hitch
  • Money and Erhard

7. Who designed the Working Memory Model?

  • Money and Erhard
  • Peterson and peterson
  • Baddeley and Hitch
  • Atkinson and Shiffrin

8. What are the components of the WMM?

  • Visual store, Episodic store, Language store, LTM and Central executive
  • Episodic Buffer, Phonological loop, Visio- spatial scratchpad, Central Executive, LTM
  • Critical period, Sensory period,
  • Switchboard, Mainframe and USB

9. What is a weakness of the WMM?

  • Explains how mental maths' processing and calculating at the same time is possible
  • Baddeley et al's word length effect and pointer with F study
  • Hard to falsify as may discrepancies can be explained away
  • It has been very influential

10. Weaknesses of the multi-store model?

  • Explains why we can remember the most recent and last of a list
  • Doesn't explain why revision is impossible
  • Rote rehearsal is not the only way of remembering things
  • Explains why people with brain damage can remember past evens while not laying down new memories

11. What is a strength of the WMM?

  • Articulatory control suppression makes us feel slugish
  • Baddeley et al's word length effect and pointer with F study
  • Not much is known about the most important of the components
  • Richardson finds it hard to falsify, hard to test it's validity