Multi store model of memory and types of long-term memory

Who proposed the multi store model of memory?

Atkinson and Shriffin

Which component of the multi storm model of memory processes all sense-based information from the environment?

Sensory register

Sensory information is held within the register for duration of how long

Milliseconds, has limited duration

Coding in short-term memory is what?

Acoustic

Miller’s ‘magic number 7’ refers to the _______ of short-term memory.

Capacity

If information in short-term memory is not rehearsed, what happens to it?

displaced/forgotten

Coding in long-term memory is

Semantic

Some long-term memories may be unavailable; resistant to _____ .

Retrieval

True or false? One strength of the multi store model of memory is that it is supported by case studies of brain-damaged patients.

True, study of HM

What was the case study about HM about?

removed his hippocampus and could remember events from before but not form new memories.

What is one limitation of the multi store model of memory?

Too simplistic, research suggest that short-term memory and long-term memory are made up of more than one store.

Much of the research into multi store model of memory involves participants undertaking artificial tasks which means it is low in ______.

Ecological validity

What are the three types of long-term memory?

Episodic, semantic and procedural

What is episodic memory?

Past events

What are semantic memories?

Knowledge

What is procedural memory?

skills

Brain scans indicate that each type of long-term memory may be stored in different areas of the brain which is a strength because ____.

Scientific

True or false? One strength is that there is no crossover at all between any of the types of long-term memory.

False