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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Psychology => Topic started by: superel on May 06, 2012, 10:42:34 pm
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Hey everyone,
So i'm really confused about the comparison of the memory models, and as it's in the study design i really want to make sure i know it.
What i have so far is that the Atkinson-Shiffrin model has distinct stages, whereas the stages in Baddeley and Hitch, and Craik and Lockhart are more integrated and the information flows more easily between them. And that Atkinson Shiffron describes STM and working memory as the same thing, whereas B&H describes working memory as having separate components that are specialised (phonological loop and the visuo-spatial skethpad)
Can anyone add to this list? My textbook has nothing about this!
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Hey, from what I can gather, Atkinson-Shiffrin is sensory, STM and LTM. Baddeley and Hitch working memory is seen as another name for STM in the Atkinson-Shiffrin model. In the actual Baddeley model, it has all the features of the central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketch pad and episodic buffer. Craik and Lockhart states that memory doesn't have different stores, but is a continuous dimension in which memories are encoded related to the ease with which they can be retrieved (eg. Shallow processing, poor recall; deep processing, highest recall). My textbook also says about the Craik model that "Instead, the stores are all seen as being on a continuum where working memory contains only the very recently activated information from long-term memory, and short-term memory contains only a very small, fleeting part of working memory." - which I don't get, but anyway! Do you? Hope this helped!