10 Questions
What are the three main memory stores in the multi-store model of memory?
Sensory memory, short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM)
What are the three main ways in which information can be encoded?
Visual (picture), acoustic (sound), and semantic (meaning)
What is elaborative rehearsal and how does it relate to the transfer of information between memory stores?
Elaborative rehearsal is giving meaning to information, and if information is given meaning, it is passed on to the long-term memory (LTM).
What does capacity refer to in the context of memory?
Capacity refers to how much information can be stored in the memory.
What does duration refer to in the context of memory?
Duration refers to the period of time information can last in the memory stores.
What is the approximate capacity of STM?
5-9 items
What is the primacy-recency effect?
Info presented at the beginning & end of a list is retained better than the middle.
What did Miller (1956) find about the capacity of STM?
STM has a capacity of 7 items of information, but struggles to hold more than 9.
What did Peterson and Peterson (1959) find about the role of rehearsal in memory?
More than 90% of trigrams were forgotten when rehearsal was prevented after 18 seconds.
What are the slave systems in the Working Memory Model by Baddeley and Hitch (1974)?
Phonological loop, Visuospatial sketchpad, and Episodic buffer.
Test your knowledge about Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multi-store Model of Memory in Cognitive Psychology. Explore the three memory stores, their encoding, capacity, and duration, and learn how information is transferred between them in a linear sequence.
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