a representation of how memory works in terms of three stores called the sensory register, STM and LTM. Describes how information is transferred, what makes some memories last and some disappear
Sensory Register
Memory stores for each of our five senses. Capacity is huge, millions of receptors and information lasts a very short time.
Criticisms of MSM
was later adapted by Baddeley and Hitch
Doesn’t display different types of LTM - episodic, semantic, procedural
Iconic store
Visual information
Echoing store
Auditory information
Primacy effect
Tendency to remember the first five or so words from a list, as they are in LTM
Recency effect
Tendency to remember the last five or so words from a list, as they are in STM
