Multi-store Memory Model

Question 1

why is memory important?

Answer 1

• learn new skills and develop previously learnt skills
• remember tactics previously used
• thinking back to similar situations

Question 2

define encoding

Answer 2

conversion of info into codes

Question 3

define storage

Answer 3

retention of info over a period of time

Question 4

define retrieval

Answer 4

• recovering stored info from our memory
• success depends on how well info is stored

Question 5

short-term sensory store

Answer 5

• stimuli enters the brain
• info stored for 1/4 and 1 second before it’s filtered through stimulus identification stage
• selective attention: relevant info filtered through STM and irrelevant info forgotten

Question 6

short term memory

Answer 6

• can rehearse info through imagery or sub-verbal repetition and pass into LTM
• info held by chunking e.g. remembering the whole drill as a number rather than individual stages

Question 7

long-term memory

Answer 7

• motor programmes stored here because they have been rehearsed many times
• continued rehearsal leads to a skill being auto

Question 8

strengths of MSM

Answer 8

• simplifies the memory process to aid understanding
• shows how those with brain damage may have dysfunctional memory showing a distinction between STM and LTM

Question 9

disadvantages of MSM

Answer 9

• too simplified: doesn’t explain why we remember different types of info
• doesn’t effectively prove distinctions between STM and LTM or explain the interactions