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Psychology - multi-store model of memory- AO1 Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Memory - multi-store model of memory - AO1

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Process

1- stimulus enters the sensory register from the enviro­nment.
2- attention must be payed to the stimulus for the inform­ation to pass to the STM - if no attention is payed then the inform­ation will decay
3- if attention is payed the inform­ation will pass to the STM - At the STM mainte­nance rehearsal of the inform­ation keeps it in the short term memory - if mainte­nance rehearsal is done for a long period of time it becomes prolonged or elabor­ative rehearsal.
4- if mainte­nance rehearsal doesn’t occur then the inform­ation will decay
5- when mainte­nance rehearsal become prolonged rehearsal then the inform­ation passes to the long term memory.
6- for inform­ation o pass back into the STM retrieval occurs.

Sensory register

Coding
The way the stimulus is encoded in the sensory register depends on the stimulus. If the stimulus is acoustic is is encoded in the echoic store and if it is visual it is encoded in the iconic store.
Capacity
the capacity of the sensory register is very large
Duration
The duration of the sensory register is very short = millis­econds

Short Term Memory

Coding
The inform­ation in the STM is encoded acoust­ically
Capacity
The capacity of the STM is 7 +/— 2
Duration
the duration of the STM is very short = 0-18 seconds

Long term memory

Coding
The LTM is encoded semant­ically
Capacity
The LTM has an unlimited capacity
Duration
The duration of the LTM is for a lifetime