MSM

• Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968:

  • Sensory register: info from the senses, retained for very brief period of time

  1. Environmental stimuli goes to sensory memory
  2. attention brings it to STM
  3. maintenance rehearsal keeps it in the STM and transfers it to LTM
  4. Retrieval brings it from LTM to STM

  Suggests LTM and STM 2 separate stores
• AO3 Support:

  • Beardsley (1997) found that the prefrontal cortex was active during STM but not LTM tasks, Squire (1992) found hippocampus active for LTM
  • Scoville and Milner (1957), HM case study, his personality and intellect intact and could recall presurgery memories, but could not make new memories
• AO3 Criticism:

  • MSM too simple, WMM shows that STM itself is split into many different stores
  • Craik and Lockhart (1972), LTM created by processing rather than maintenance rehearsal - Craik and Tulving (1975) people remember things deeply processed rather than shallowly processed
  • Logie (1999), STM relies on LTM and therefore can't come first - Ruchkin (2003), Ps recall real and pseudo words, more brain activity when processing real, other areas involved rather than just STM