multi store model

• • information from environment goes to sensory memory
  • person pays attention goes to short term memory
  • repeating info transferred to LTM
  • info being rehearsed is by maintenance rehearsal if not it will decay
  • info from LTM goes to STM by retrieval
• Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin created the MSM
• AO3 1 - MSM too simple 


  maintenance rehearsal can explain storage in semantic memory but not episodic memory
• A03 2 - case studies proves MSM - diff stores 


  Scoville and milner - patient HM - hippocampus removed - could not form new LTM but can remember things before surgery (STM) - proves separate stores
• AO3 3 - MSM states STM involved before LTM


  • Logie pointed out that STM relies on LTM - cannot come first
  • e.g remembering big words- need to recall meanings and groups of letters which stored in LTM
  • means STM not separate store - apart of LTM
• A03 4 - evidence of STM and LTM separate 


  Beardsley - prefrontal cortex active during STM but not LTM = separate - evidence provide support for MSM