What are the strengths of multi-store model of memory?

Strengths. One strength of the multistore model is that is gives us a good understanding of the structure and process of the STM. This is good because this allows researchers to expand on this model.

What are the limitation of the multi store memory model?

Limitations of the MSM The model is over-simplified. It assumes that each of the stores works as an independent unit. The model does not explain memory distortion. The model does not explain why some things may be learned with a minimal amount of rehearsal.

What is one criticism of the multi-store model of memory?

The multi-store model of memory has been criticised for placing too much emphasis on the role of rehearsal. Whilst rehearsal is important in moving information from short-term memory to long-term memory, it is not the only way information moves between the stores.

How does the MSM lack detail?

MSM is credible because it is supported by case studies of people like H.M. and Clive Wearing. Because of brain damage, these people have amnesia and cannot make new memories. MSM suggests they fail to rehearse information from STM to LTM.

What is a strength of the working memory model?

Strengths: – The WMM provides an explanation for parallel processing (i.e. where processes involved in a cognitive task occur at once), unlike Atkinson and Shiffrin’s MSM.

What is a strength of the Jacobs 1887 study?

Jacobs claimed the increase in STM span/ capacity due to increase brain capacity & individual ability to develop strategies to improve their memory such as chunking. EVALUATION OF JACOBS (1887) Strength. Study is lab experiment therefore establishes cause and effect.

What is one advantage that the working memory model has over the multi-store memory model?

The working memory model explains a lot more than the multistore model. It makes sense of a range of tasks – verbal reasoning, comprehension, reading, problem-solving and visual and spatial processing.

What is one strength of the working memory model?

One strength of the WMM is that there is evidence to support the phonological loop. Baddeley (1975) word length effect (short words easier to recall than long). Prevention from being able to rehearse words by repeating an irrelevant sound.

What is one advantage that the Working Memory model has over the multi store memory model?

What supports the multi-store model?

The primacy and recency effect supports the multi store model for memory because it argues the fact that short term and long term memory are two separate stores in memory.

What is a weakness of the working memory model?

Weaknesses: – Despite providing more detail of STM than the multi-store model, the WMM has been criticized for being too simplistic and vague, e.g. it is unclear what the central executive is, or its exact role in attention.

What is the key difference between the multi-store model and the working memory model?

The Multi-store model describes the loss of memory through decay, which the Working Memory model doesn’t. Furthermore, the working memory model explains short-term memory in some detail while Multi-Store model has just laid out general steps of memory.