Multi-Store Memory Model

Sensory memory has an unlimited capacity and duration and encoding depends on the sense organ involved

Who proposed the multi-store memory model?

What are the main stores of Sensory Memory

How is information transferred from Sensory Memory to Short Term Memory

Give an example of an experiment that supports sensory memory

The results of the Sperling 1960 Sensory Memory experiment showed reults that when asked to recall one row that corresponded with a tone; their recall was better than when asked to recall the whole grid.

STM has a capacity of 7+/- 2 bits, a duration of 20 seconds and the encoding is mainly acoustic

Who propsed the magic number theory?

Peterson and Peterson carried out a study on the duration of STM

How is information trasferred from STM to LTM

There are individual differences which can affect MSM.

Capacity is a meaure of how much can be held in memory

What part on the brain did HM have removed?

Who carried out an experiment on the duration of LTM?

Semantic encoding is when you rehearse a piece of information many times.

Duration is the time it takes for a memory to move from SM to STM

What is the capacity, duration and encoding method for LTM?

Define encoding

Who propsed the theory of 'chunking'?

Glanzer and Cuntiz propsed the serial position effect.

How many words were participants asked to recall in Glanzer and Cunitz serial position effect experiment?

Primacy effect is the primary figure of attachment.

Describe a strength of MSM.

The case study of HM suggests memories must pass through the hippocampus before entering LTM.

MSM is completely valid.

The recency effect is when words at the end of a list are still in STM when participants are asked to recall them.