Multi store model

• What is the first component of the multi-store model?

  Sensory store
• What is required for information to move from the sensory store to short-term memory?

  Attention
• What does STM stand for in the multi-store model?

  Short-term memory
• What process allows information to transfer from LTM to STM?

  Rehearsal
• What does LTM stand for in the multi-store model?

  Long-term memory
• What happens to information that is not attended to in the sensory register?

  It is lost or forgotten
• What types of coding are associated with the sensory register?

  Iconic and echoic
• What is the role of the sensory register in the multi-store model?

  It holds all stimuli before processing
• How does attention affect the flow of information in the multi-store model?

  Attention allows information to enter STM
• What is the process of information flow in the multi-store model?

  • Sensory store receives stimuli
  • Attention transfers information to STM
  • Rehearsal transfers information to LTM
  • Retrieval brings information back from LTM
• What is the consequence of not paying attention to stimuli in the sensory register?

  Information is lost or forgotten
• What is the significance of rehearsal in the multi-store model?

  It facilitates the transfer to long-term memory
• What is the term for the auditory information held in the sensory register?

  Echoic memory
• What is the term for the visual information held in the sensory register?

  Iconic memory
• Sensory register


  All stimuli pass through, coding for visual is iconic for sound is echoic pay attention for info to be processed
• STM In multi store model


  increase duration by rehearsal

  increase capacity by chunking
• LTM In multi store


  when need to recall - transfer into STM by retrieval
• positive of multi store


  evidence shows STM and LTM Seperate. badderly/jacobs/peterson found differences which shows Stores are seperate

  however this research was artificial
• weakness of multi store model:

  multiple STM Stores 


  Amnesia patient had poor STM recalling digits read to him but better when he read them.
• Weakness Of Multi store:

  Multiple LTM stores


  Episodic, procedural, semantic

  Model wrong to assume only one