Memory

Sketch the mutlistore model of memory

Answer explanation

Proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin, this model of memory sees memory as a passive and linear process.

Match the following

• How information is processed

• Capacity

• How long it lasts

• Coding

• How much information can be stored

• Duration

According to the MSM, which of the following processes are vital to memory

• Attention

• Executive

• Rehearsal

• Semantics

In the context of the Multi-Store Model, how is information transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory?

• Encoding

• Rehearsal

• Retrieval

• Attention

Match the following duration to the memory store

• Approx 18 seconds

• STM

• Up to a lifetime

• LTM

• Huge

• SR

How is short term memory coded?

• Acoustically

• Semantically