Multi store model of memory

Who developed the multi store model of memory?

• Aitchison & Shiffrin

• Atkinson & Shiffrin

• Atkinson & Shallice

• Atkinson & Shilling

How is information 'lost' from our STM?

What type of rehearsal moves information from our STM to our LTM?

In Peterson & Petersons study of the duration of STM, what % of trigrams were recalled correctly after an 18 sec delay?

• 5%

• 10%

• 15%

• 20%

Who carried out a study to investigate encoding in STM & LTM?

• Miller

• Glanzer & Cunitz

• Baddeley

• Bahrick

In the Bahrick study what % of faces & names were recalled by those who had left school in the last 15Yrs?

Which of the following is TRUE of HM?

• He was left with no ability to form STM's

• His semantic & episodic memories were intact

• He could not remember spoken numbers / letters

• He was unable to create new LTM's

Which of the following criticisms DOES NOT apply to case studies of brain damaged patients?

• We are unable to replicate them

• They are not representative of everyones memory

• They cannot be generalised

• They have low ecological validity

Which case study of a brain damaged patient suggests that LTM is made up of different components?

• Clive Wearing

• HM

• KF

Which 2 statement about the multi-store model are FALSE?

• Only information that is attended to will pass from sensory to STM

• The duration of STM is approx 20 seconds with maintenance rehearsal

• Capacity of LTM can be improved through chunking

• Information is encoded semantically in our LTM