A-level Multi-store Model of Memory

The capacity of short-term memory is...

• 200-500ms

• 7 chunks of information + / - 2

• 18 - 30 seconds

• Potentially unlimited

The duration of the sensory register is...

• 200-500ms

• 7 chunks of information + / - 2

• 18 - 30 seconds

• Potentially unlimited

Whose study provides evidence for the duration of short-term memory?

• Crowder

• Peterson and Peterson

• Baddeley

• Miller

Which study asked participants to stare at a 3x3 grid as it flashed up for 50ms

• Crowder

• Peterson and Peterson

• Sterling

• Walsh and Thompson

Baddeley found that acoustically similar words were easier to remember in...

• the sensory register

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

Answer explanation

Remember that if they sound the same, the information gets confused in short-term memory as we repeat the information acoustically (verbally - over and over in our head)

The multi-store model suggests that information will only move into your short-term memory if you...

• pay attention to it

• rehearse the information

• semantically encode it

• retrieve it enough times

The multi-store model of memory suggests information can be forgotten...

• At any point

• Only in short-term memory

• Only in the sensory register and short-term memory

• if you don't pay attention to it

The multi-store mode of memory suggests that long-term memory has several stores...

• True

• False

The multi-store model of memory suggests that information can move from your sensory register, straight into your long-term memory...

• True

• False

Answer explanation

There is no process arrow going from the sensory register to long-term memory, it always goes through short-term memory

The multi-store model of memory suggests that memory moves through a series of storage systems...

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory are all storage systems (stores)