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WorksheetsThe Multi Store Model of Memory
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Who developed the MSM?
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Shiffrin and Atkinson
Linear
Two dimensional
In the sensory memory there are how many sensory registers?
Five
5
Linear
Two dimensional
What do we call the sensory register that stores visual information?
iconic
Linear
Two dimensional
Maintenance
What do we call the sensory register that stores auditory information?
echoic
Linear
Two dimensional
Maintenance
The sensor registers store information in the same format in which they are received. What do we call this process?
modality specific
Linear
Two dimensional
Maintenance
The capacity of the sensory register is high?
True
False
Linear
Two dimensional
The duration of the sensory register is .........?
Less than 2 seconds
Less than a second
Less than half a second
Linear
Sperling's experiment offers support for what aspect of the sensory register
Coding
Capacity
Duration
Linear
What process moves information from the Sensory register to the STM?
attention
attentional
attend
attending
What is the coding for the STM?
Acoustic
Semantic
Modality Specific
Linear
What is the duration of the STM
7 + or - 2
18-30 Seconds
Unlimited
Lifetime
What is the capacity of the STM ?
7 + or - 2
18-30 Seconds
Unlimited
Lifetime
To move information in to the LTM, what prolonged process must occur?
rehearsal
Linear
Two dimensional
Maintenance
What is the coding for the LTM?
Acoustic
Semantic
Modality Specific
Linear
The duration of the LTM is?
18-30 Seconds
Unlimited
A lifetime
Linear
The capacity of the LTM is
Unlimited
Lifetime
Linear
Two dimensional
What do we call the process of moving information from the LTM to the STM?
retrieval
Linear
Two dimensional
Maintenance
The MSM might lack external validity as an explanation of how memory works. This is because a lot of the supporting experiments use
Simple words
Artificial Stimuli
Uncommon numbers
Linear
Shallice and Warrington's study of KF contradicts the MSM because it suggests that different types of STM are stored in separate regions of the brain. What material did KF struggle to recall?
Digits read to him
Digits he read himself
Linear
Two dimensional
Craik and Watkins suggest that what type of rehearsal moves information from the STM to the LTM?
Maintenance
Prolonged
Elaborative
Linear
What do we call the process where by words presented either early in the list or at the end are more often recalled, but the ones in the middle were more often forgotten. The .................. .....................effect.
Word length
Serial position
Linear
Two dimensional
What type of reductionism applies to this model?
Reciprocal
Biological
Machine
Linear
