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The Multi Store Model of Memory

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who developed the MSM?

a)

Atkinson and Shiffrin

b)

Shiffrin and Atkinson

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

2.

In the sensory memory there are how many sensory registers?

a)

Five

b)

5

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

3.

What do we call the sensory register that stores visual information?

a)

iconic

b)

Linear

c)

Two dimensional

d)

Maintenance

4.

What do we call the sensory register that stores auditory information?

a)

echoic

b)

Linear

c)

Two dimensional

d)

Maintenance

5.

The sensor registers store information in the same format in which they are received. What do we call this process?

a)

modality specific

b)

Linear

c)

Two dimensional

d)

Maintenance

6.

The capacity of the sensory register is high?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

7.

The duration of the sensory register is .........?

a)

Less than 2 seconds

b)

Less than a second

c)

Less than half a second

d)

Linear

8.

Sperling's experiment offers support for what aspect of the sensory register

a)

Coding

b)

Capacity

c)

Duration

d)

Linear

9.

What process moves information from the Sensory register to the STM?

a)

attention

b)

attentional

c)

attend

d)

attending

10.

What is the coding for the STM?

a)

Acoustic

b)

Semantic

c)

Modality Specific

d)

Linear

11.

What is the duration of the STM

a)

7 + or - 2

b)

18-30 Seconds

c)

Unlimited

d)

Lifetime

12.

What is the capacity of the STM ?

a)

7 + or - 2

b)

18-30 Seconds

c)

Unlimited

d)

Lifetime

13.

To move information in to the LTM, what prolonged process must occur?

a)

rehearsal

b)

Linear

c)

Two dimensional

d)

Maintenance

14.

What is the coding for the LTM?

a)

Acoustic

b)

Semantic

c)

Modality Specific

d)

Linear

15.

The duration of the LTM is?

a)

18-30 Seconds

b)

Unlimited

c)

A lifetime

d)

Linear

16.

The capacity of the LTM is

a)

Unlimited

b)

Lifetime

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

17.

What do we call the process of moving information from the LTM to the STM?

a)

retrieval

b)

Linear

c)

Two dimensional

d)

Maintenance

18.

The MSM might lack external validity as an explanation of how memory works. This is because a lot of the supporting experiments use

a)

Simple words

b)

Artificial Stimuli

c)

Uncommon numbers

d)

Linear

19.

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?

a)

Digits read to him

b)

Digits he read himself

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

20.

Craik and Watkins suggest that what type of rehearsal moves information from the STM to the LTM?

a)

Maintenance

b)

Prolonged

c)

Elaborative

d)

Linear

21.

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.

a)

Word length

b)

Serial position

c)

Linear

d)

Two dimensional

22.

What type of reductionism applies to this model?

a)

Reciprocal

b)

Biological

c)

Machine

d)

Linear