Multi Store Model of Memory

Test your knowledge on the most well-known and influential model of memory.

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Who proposed the Multi-Store model of memory?
Atkinson and Shiffrin
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What is the main form of encoding in STM?
Acoustically
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How is information passed from STM to LTM?
Rehearsed
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How can information be lost in LTM?
Damage and decay
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What is the Multi-Store model of memory referred as?
Structural model
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How can information be kept in STM?
Rehearsal
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What are the three separate sensory store called?
Iconic, Echoic and Haptic
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What conclusion was drawn from this experiment?
The image of the letters had faded by the time of recall
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What is meant by the term "displacement"?
Forgetting information in STM to make room for incoming information
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What is meant by the term "free recall" task?
A task in which participants can recall information from the experiment in any order
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In terms of the Multi-Store memory model, psychologists used "free recall" tasks to prove what?
The distinction between STM and LTM
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The recency effect is used to describe the event where participants remember the first information they are presented with?
False
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The primacy effect is used to describe the event where participants remember the first information they are presented with?
True
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Who were the psychologists who researched into how long items remained in STM without rehearsal?
Peterson and Peterson
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What is meant by the term proactive interference?
Wrong information has been learnt making it harder to learn the right information
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Who was the psychologist who found that similarly sounding words were harder to remember?
Baddeley
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The Multi-Store model places emphasis on the role of rehearsal in memory, however there is considerable evidence that says what?
Rehearsal is one of the least ineffective methods
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