MSM

• Who are the key psychologists for the MSM?

  Atkinson and shiffrin 1968
• what happens in the sensory register?

  sensory information coming from the senses is detected and recorded automatically
• how is sensory register passed on to STM?

  paying attention
• what is the coding,capacity and duration in sensory register?

  • coding - modality specific
  • capacity- very large
  • duration- 250 ms
• what is the duration of STM?

  18 to 30 seconds
• what is maintenance rehearsal?

  keeping information in STM by continuous repetition
• what is elaborative rehearsal?

  linking new information to knowledge already stored in LTM
• describe glanzer and cunitz procedure and findings?

  • participants free recall word lists.
  • recall was much stronger for words at the start and end of list.
  • shows STM and LTM are separate stores.
  • words first head entered LTM and recalled - primacy effect
  • most recent words held by STM and recalled - recency effect.
  • middle words were in STM but displaced by later words
• describe the case of HM

  • suffered severe epilepsy
  • surgery to remove hippocampus from both sides of the brain
• describe the findings of the case of HM

  • assessed in 1957 - he thought it was 1953 and that he was 27 when he was 31
  • ltm didn’t improve with practice
  • repeatedly read the same magazine
  • performed well on stm memory tests