The Multistore Model of Memory

• Fill in the blank:

  A) Sensory Memory

  B) Long Term Memory

  C) Attention

  D) Rehearsal

  E) Consolidation

  F) Retrieval

  G) Short Term Memory

  
• What is the multistore model of memory?

  It's a structural model outlining the three memory stores, being the sensory register, short-term, long-term memory as individual unitary stores.
• Information passes through the multistore model of memory in a linear fashion. Each of these stores has its own characteristics in terms of coding, capacity and duration.
• In order for information to pass from the sensory memory to the short-term memory, attention is needed.

  In order for information to pass from the short-term memory to the long-term memory, rehearsal is needed.

  The information must be retrieved back from the long-term memory to the short-term memory for it to be accessed due to it being a linear model.
• The sensory register is not under cognitive control like the short-term memory or the long-term memory. Instead it comes from the senses detected and recorded automatically.
• All the information found in the short-term and long-term memory were initially gathered by the sensory register.
• The coding of the sensory register is modality specific, meaning that each sense organ codes differently.
• If information is not passed through the long-term or short-term memory it may be lost via displacement or decay.
• No limit has ever been found for the capacity or duration of long-term memory. Even those who lose information may not have lost it but may have lost access even though it is still in the LTM