Multi Store Model of Memory

• Multi-Store Memory (MSM)


  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
• what is the primacy effect

  Tendency to remember the first five or so words from a list, as they are in LTM
• what is the recency effect

  Tendency to remember the last five or so words from a list, as they are in STM