Paper 1 - Memory (Multi-store model)

The multi-store model of memory

What are the three stores in the multi-store model of memory?

The sensory register, Short-term memory, and long-term memory.

What must we do for information to be passed from the sensory register to our short-term memory?

Pay attention to it.

What is it called when we rehearse newly learnt information, allowing it to remain in our STM?

Maintenance rehearsal.

What does a lack of maintenance rehearsal cause to happen to the new information?

Forgetting.

What is the name of the process that allows us to transfer information form our LTM back to our STM to remember it?

Retrieval.

Tulving argued that there are three different types of LTM and these are…

Semantic,procedural, and episodic.

Why does the MSM not support Tulving’s idea and appears to be reductionist?

The MSM presents LTM as being one store and does not account for different types of memory.

For example, procedural memory can be retrieved unconciously unlike semantic.

What case study supports the idea that there are different forms of LTM and that procedural memory is unconciously retrieved?

Clive Wearing - Suffered with anterograde amnesia - Able to play piano - Could not recall episodic memories.

What case study supports the idea that the STM also has distinctive parts, and that it is not a single store?

Patient KF - Motorcycle acciddent - Auditory information impaired - Visual memory remained intact