Multi-store model

• Who created the MSM

  Atkinson + Shiffrin
• Multi store model


  Suggests there's more than one store
• Memory


  A flow of information
• Main stores of memory

  • Sensory memory
  • Short-term memory
  • Long-term memory
• Sensory memory


  • Large capacity
  • Information from all senses
• Short-term memory


  • Information can be retrieved or lost by decay or displacement
• Long-term memory


  • Information can be lost through interference, decay and retrieval failure
• The multi store model was the first model to separate short-term and long-term memory
• The multi store model is supported by brain scans
• The multi store model assumes there is just one short-term memory and one long-term memory, which is flawed
• The idea that maintenance rehearsal leads to information being stored in long-term memory is too simplistic
• Evaluation for MSM

  • 1st model to separate STM + LTM

  • support from brain scans

  • isn’t just one STM - KF

  • isn’t just one LTM - Clive Wearing

  • maintenance rehearsal for LTM is too simplistic