The multi-store model can be explained in terms of 3 stores, sensory, short term and long term stores

Outline and Evaluate The Multistore Model (12)

The multi-store model can be explained in terms of 3 stores, sensory short term and long term stores and 2 process, attention and rehearsal.  Information first enters the sensory store directly from the senses. It remains in the sensory store for a maximum duration of around 2 seconds before it decays and is replaced with new information. If information in the sensory store is attended to then it can be passed to the short term store. In the short term store only 7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information can be stored in the short term store. It is encoded phonetically by its sound and remains there for about 18 seconds without being rehearsed. For information to be transferred form the short term store to the long term store the information needs to be learnt , this is done semantically by have a deeper meaning about the information that has been learnt. However, when new information enters the short term store is displaces any information that is already there, meaning that information that isn’t rehearsed and passed to the long term store is forgotten. When information enters the long term store it remains there for a life time, as the capacity and duration of the store is unlimited.