The Multi-Store Model Of Memory

• What 3 Stores does the Multi Store model of memory consist of?

  • Sensory Store
  • Short-memory
  • Long memory
• What is the capacity of information within the sensory store?

  • It can hold quite a lot of information.
• How does information enter the Sensory stage?

  • Stimuli from the environment around us ,such as sights, smells and sounds ,enter the sensory store whether we or not we are paying attention to the source. If we do not pay attention to the information, then it decays.
• what is the duration of information during within the sensory store?

  
  

  • 2 seconds
• How is information encoded in the sensory Store ?

  • Through the senses.
• What is the capacity in the Short-term memory?

  • Its quite limited. It can only hold an average of seven items, plus or minus 2, depending on how large the item is.
• What is seven plus or minus 2 known as?

  • Its known as Miller's magic number seven.
• What happens if it reaches its full capacity in the short term memory?

  • If STM reaches its capacity and more information enters, then the information that enters the store will be displaced.
• For how long can information stay in the Short term memory?

  • 30 sec's
  • If the information in the STM is not transferred to LTM then it decays. This means that memory trace fades.
• How does information mainly encode in the Short term memory?

  • Its Auditory.
• According to the theory, what does it suggest about repeating and rehearsing the information?

  • It suggest that we must repeat or rehearse the information that is in the short-term memory. This is called maintenance rehearsal and it allows information to be moved into long term memory.
• What doe the Study also suggest about elaborative rehearsal?

  • It suggest that elaborative rehearsal is also important for the information to pass on from he STM to the LTM.
  • Elaborative rehearsal involves thinking about the meaning of the word or what is being memorised rather than just repeating it over and over.
• What does the theory suggest about the duration and capacity in the Long term memory?

  • LTM has both unlimited capacity and duration is potentially forever.
  • This means that there is not limit to the amount of information that can store and no limit to how long it can hold the information there.