● A01 Multi- Store Model of Memory
Multi Store Model : Explanation of memory that sees information flowing
through a series of storage systems through processing in a linear way
- Sensory memory: Constantly receives information from a
stimulus. It encodes it haptically( touch), gustatory(taste),
iconic(light stimulus) echoic (auditory stimulus) and
olfactory- smell. Most of this is lost unless we pay attention
to it. This held for 1/4 of a second due to limited duration
- Sensory memory to STM: Paying attention transfers it to
STMIt's coded acoustically and lasts 30 secs unless
rehearsed. The more information is rehearsed the likelier it
is to enter LTM. Without rehearsal, STM disappears quickly
and and new info displaces it due to limited capacity
- STM to LTM: elaborative rehearsal- deeper more semantic
analysis occurs. This encodes semantically and can be
retrieved from LTM when needed.
● A03 Multi- Store Model of Memory
- Scanning techniques provided evidence to support the MSM. Prefrontal
cortex is active for tasks acquiring STM (Beardsley). Hippocampus is
active for LTM (Squire et al). Supports the assumption that they are
separate unitary stores
- Clive Wearing suffered from anterograde amnesia (meaning he can't
create new memories) as well as retrograde amnesia (meaning he's lost
many of his memories): contracted a herpes virus which ended up
attacking his hippocampus, causing him to develop amnesia. Clive
Wearing is unable to transfer information from his short term memory to
his long term memory. He can store information for 7-30 seconds before it
is displaced. He can remember how to play piano perfectly, suggesting
that actions that have been rehearsed. Supports MSM linear passage as it
proves that there is an existence of two separate stores for the short term
and long term memory, because Clive Wearing's long term store was
impaired, but his short term works perfectly fine.Wearing's case supports
the idea that memories are formed by passing information from one store
to the next, in a linear fashion, and that damage to any part of the MSM
can cause memory impairment.
Multi Store Model : Explanation of memory that sees information flowing
through a series of storage systems through processing in a linear way
- Sensory memory: Constantly receives information from a
stimulus. It encodes it haptically( touch), gustatory(taste),
iconic(light stimulus) echoic (auditory stimulus) and
olfactory- smell. Most of this is lost unless we pay attention
to it. This held for 1/4 of a second due to limited duration
- Sensory memory to STM: Paying attention transfers it to
STMIt's coded acoustically and lasts 30 secs unless
rehearsed. The more information is rehearsed the likelier it
is to enter LTM. Without rehearsal, STM disappears quickly
and and new info displaces it due to limited capacity
- STM to LTM: elaborative rehearsal- deeper more semantic
analysis occurs. This encodes semantically and can be
retrieved from LTM when needed.
● A03 Multi- Store Model of Memory
- Scanning techniques provided evidence to support the MSM. Prefrontal
cortex is active for tasks acquiring STM (Beardsley). Hippocampus is
active for LTM (Squire et al). Supports the assumption that they are
separate unitary stores
- Clive Wearing suffered from anterograde amnesia (meaning he can't
create new memories) as well as retrograde amnesia (meaning he's lost
many of his memories): contracted a herpes virus which ended up
attacking his hippocampus, causing him to develop amnesia. Clive
Wearing is unable to transfer information from his short term memory to
his long term memory. He can store information for 7-30 seconds before it
is displaced. He can remember how to play piano perfectly, suggesting
that actions that have been rehearsed. Supports MSM linear passage as it
proves that there is an existence of two separate stores for the short term
and long term memory, because Clive Wearing's long term store was
impaired, but his short term works perfectly fine.Wearing's case supports
the idea that memories are formed by passing information from one store
to the next, in a linear fashion, and that damage to any part of the MSM
can cause memory impairment.
