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Outline the multi store model of memory with evidence to support it
- Essay length: 532 words
- Submitted: 18/01/2010
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Marked by teacher:
Jo Wilcox
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Reviewed by:
danielle-dansmell
26/02/2012
Teacher essay summary
This essay shows a sound understanding of the multi store model and some of the research which supports its proposals. Material has been selected appropriately, but the essay is insufficiently evaluative and seems unfinished. It would be helped by weaving the supporting evidence throughout the description and considering the validity of that evidence. It is easier and more effective to evaluate throughout the essay than to leave it until the end, and it may be better to cut down on the descriptive detail to ensure that there is time to evaluate. This is particularly important when writing in timed conditions. A consideration of some of the theory's shortcomings would be useful - such as the problem that it doesn't account for information which is remembered without rehearsal, or the evidence which suggests that the stores can be subdivided. It also needs a final concluding paragraph to discuss how influential this theory was in its day, although it has since been superseded by the working memory model.
Marked by teacher Jo Wilcox 15/02/2012
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Multi Store Model
The multi store model of memory (or MSM) proposed by Atkinson and Schifrin (1968), was the first explanation of memory in terms of categorical stores. This model explains memory in terms of three stores: sensory, short term and long term memory.
The first stage of the store is environmental stimuli; this consists of everything in our environment that has the potential of being perceived. This enters the sensory memory store, which is encoded in either iconic (visually) or echoic (auditory) forms. These are stored for less than a second, and unless attention is given to these stimuli will be lost through decay. By paying attention these stimuli enter the short term memory store, it is encoded acoustically and sometimes visually. Short term memory has a very limited capacity of 7+- 2. This means we can remember 5-9 items at a time. If we want to increase this we can chunk them. For example instead of remember 0 1 9 2 has four separate pieces of information, we can remember it as 0192, chunking them together as one piece, expanding what we can remember. However we can only keep this new information in our
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This essay shows a sound understanding of the multi store model and some of the research which supports its proposals. Material has been selected appropriately, but the essay is insufficiently evaluative and seems unfinished. It would be helped by weaving the supporting evidence throughout the description and considering the validity of that evidence. It is easier and more effective to evaluate throughout the essay than to leave it until the end, and it may be better to cut down on the descriptive detail to ensure that there is time to evaluate. This is particularly important when writing in timed conditions. A consideration of some of the theory's shortcomings would be useful - such as the problem that it doesn't account for information which is remembered without rehearsal, or the evidence which suggests that the stores can be subdivided. It also needs a final concluding paragraph to discuss how influential this theory was in its day, although it has since been superseded by the working memory model.
