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Summary AQA A level psychology memory - multi store model
Summary of 3 pages for the course Memory at AQA (Detailed A01 + A03)
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L2 - multistore modelMSM - uses three stores
- sensory register
- Short term memory store
- Long term memory store
Looks at how memory is transferred from one memory store to another and help understand
why some memories last and others disappear
Atkinson and shiffrin (1971)
Sensory register :
Stimuli from the environment is based into sensory register e.g. sound of person speaking
There are several memory stores - one for each sense
- sight
- Sound
- Taste
- Touch
- Smell
Coding within sensory register is modality specific - information is encoded depends on 5 sense
used e.g. visual information is for the iconic register and acoustic information is for the echoic
register
Duration - less than half a second
Capacity - very high e.g. 100 million cells in just one eye each store data from environment
Sensory register - STM = only if you pay attention to information
STM LTM
acoustic encoded semantic encoded
5-9 items Unlimited
18 seconds Lifetime
If we rehearse information it can stay in our Suggest in order to recall information stored
STM in LTM we must transfer it back to STM =
retrieval = so memory can be accessed
Maintenance rehearsal - repeating material to
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