Multi-Store Model of Memory

• What is important to know with ANY PROPOSED MEMORY SYSTEM?

  • Capacity
  • duration
  • coding
• what is capacity?

  how much information can be stored
• what is duration?

  how long information can be stored for
• what is coding?

  the form in which the information is stored?
• Who proposed the multi-store model of memory?

  Atkinson and Shiffrin
• How is sensory memory forgotten?

  Forgotten
• How is information in the short term memory forgotten?

  Through decay/ displacement
• how is information in the long term memory forgotten?

  through interference/ retrieval failure
• How is information transferred from LTM to STM?

  retrieval
• How is information transferred from STM to LTM?

  Storage