The multi-store model is an oversimplified view of a very complex human memory system. Evaluate the multi-store model with reference to alternative models of memory. (8 points)

Much research was devoted to identifying the properties of the sensory, short and long term memory. Cognitive psychology such as Atkinson and Shiffin began to regard them as stores or rather holding structures of memory. Theirs multi store model of memory is the first model that describes and showed how information is flowed through different parts of the sensory, short and long term memory. This model is separated into three different categories or rather sections of memory.

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The sensory Memory is the first level of memory. It stores brief in formations of a sensory stimulus after the stimulus itself has ended. Eg: seeing an object and then the object disappear. You’ll have a vivid memory of it remaining. (Coltheart at al 1974) The second is short-Term Memory where information selected by the sensory memory that gets passed to the short term memory (STM). STM has a limited capacity and allows us to retain up to 7+/- pieces of information for long enough for us to be able to use it. Peterson (1959) tested and proved that information ...

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