Multi-Store Model

• If you pay attention to something, it moves from the sensory register to the STM
• Sensory register = the place where information is held at each of the senses
• STM has a limited (18s) duration and so memories will decay relatively quickly if they aren’t rehearsed

  • information will also get displaced from the STM when new information comes in
• Maintenance rehearsal will lead to memory’s moving from the STM to the LTM

  • To get them back from the LTM, retrieval must be used
• Proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin
• PEEL 1:
• PEEL 1:

  Weakness - MSM is too simple - suggests that STM and LTM are single unitary stores - disproved by other research
• PEEL 2:

  Strength - Supporting Evidence - Controlled lab studies on C, C and D support the existence of STM and LTm