MSM

• What are the three components to the model?

  Sensory register, STM, LTM
• What does this model rely on most 


  Rehearsal
• How does information enter to the sensory register 


  Through sensory stimulus iconic & echoic
• what Is the duration of the sensory register?


  0.5 seconds
• What is the duration for the STM


  30 seconds
• How can information stay in the STM for longer?


  maintenance Rehearsal
• What’s the capacity of the STM 


  7 -/+ 2
• What happens when capacity is full 


  Displacement occurs
• How does information enter the LTM

  through rehearsal from STM
• What’s the capacity of the LTM


  Unlimited
• What is the duration of the LTM


  Potential a lifetime
• How does the LTM encode information (preferred)


  Semantically
• How does the STM encode information (preferred)

  Acoustically
• How does H.M provide evidence for MSM

  STM damaged after surgery but LTM wasn’t Supporting 2 different store
• What’s another piece of evidence for MSM?

  Peterson and Peterson 1959

  Given consonant triangle and had to remember as counting back in 3s
• What is a disadvantage for Peterson and Peterson 


  Lacks ecological validity
• What is a disadvantage for H.M?


  Cannot generalise as he had brain damage
• What is a strength of the model?


  model is testable and allows predictions to be made
• What is a shortcoming of the model?

  model is reductionist as cannot explain how some memories are remembered better than others, e.g. flashbulb memories
• Can this model be applied?

  For memory techniques like mind maps for revision through semantic links
• What are the alternative theories?

  Doubt exist whether the STM is a unit store with limited capacity believe do you have subsystems