| Coding | Capacity | Duration |
Sensory Register | Coding is Modality Specific | Potentially unlimited capacity | Limited duration of a few seconds (modality dependent) |
Short Term Memory | Codes acoustically | Limited capacity of 7±2 items | Limited duration of around 18 seconds, but with rehearsal is increased to 30 seconds |
Long Term Memory | Codes semantically | Virtually unlimited capacity | Potentially unlimited |
(+) Research to support
(+) Gave psychology a way to talk about memory with research being based on the model
(-) Over-simplified
--> assumes each store works as an independent unit
(-) Doesn't explain memory distortion
(-) Doesn't explain why some things may be learned with a minimal amount of rehearsal
(-) Rehearsal doesn't always transfer information into the LTM
Multistore Model of Memory
| Coding | Capacity | Duration |
Sensory Register | Coding is Modality Specific | Potentially unlimited capacity | Limited duration of a few seconds (modality dependent) |
Short Term Memory | Codes acoustically | Limited capacity of 7±2 items | Limited duration of around 18 seconds, but with rehearsal is increased to 30 seconds |
Long Term Memory | Codes semantically | Virtually unlimited capacity | Potentially unlimited |
(+) Research to support
(+) Gave psychology a way to talk about memory with research being based on the model
(-) Over-simplified
--> assumes each store works as an independent unit
(-) Doesn't explain memory distortion
(-) Doesn't explain why some things may be learned with a minimal amount of rehearsal
(-) Rehearsal doesn't always transfer information into the LTM