The MSM was described by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968. It is called a multi store because it has three memory stores.linked to each other by the process that enables transfer of information from one store to the next.
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Sensory register
The sensory register is the place where the information is held in each of the senses - the eyes, ears, nose, fingers, tongue, etc, and the corresponding parts of the brain. These registers have high levels of capacity, as the sensory registers receive lo
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Attention
If a person's attention is focused on one of the sensory stores, then the data is transferred to short - term memory. Attention is the first step in remembering something.
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Short-term memory
Information is held in the stm soit can be used for immediate tasks. STM has a limited duration meaning it is in a fragile state and will decay relatively quickly if it is not rehearsed straight away. Maintenance rehearsal is where you repeat the thing yo
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Maintenance rehearsal
Repetition keeps info in the stm but eventually engraves it into the ltm. The more it is rehearsed the better it is remembered.
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Long term memory
LTM is potentially unlimited in duration and capacity. If you think there are things you once knew and have forgotten then evidence suggests that you never made the memory permanent in the first place, or you just can’t find it.
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Retrieval
The process of getting information from LTM involves the information passing abc through the STM. it is then available for use.
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Supporting evidence
Controlled lab studies on capacity, duration and coding support the existence of a separate short- and long-term store, which is the basis for the MSM.
Studies involving brain scans have also shown us that there are differences in the STM and LTM memory
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Case studies
Psychologists have also shown that different areas of the brain are involved in STM and LTM from their study of individuals with brain damage.
One man named HM had to have his hippocampus removed to reduce his epilepsy. As a result he could not form new
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The multi-store model is too simple
The WMM shows that STM is divided into a number of qualitatively different stores. It isn’t just a difference in capacity and duration, but in the kind of memory that is stored there. The same is true for the LTM. The research shows that there are a numbe
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The sensory register is the place where the information is held in each of the senses - the eyes, ears, nose, fingers, tongue, etc, and the corresponding parts of the brain. These registers have high levels of capacity, as the sensory registers receive lo
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