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Chapter 3
Study Questions: Chapter 3 (Modal Model)
Chapter Question:
Summariz the modal model.
Specific Questions
1.
What is meant by primary memory?
2.
Describe Broadbent’s (1958) model of memory. What features of this model
have been retained by most other versions of the modal model?
3.
What is thought to be the form of information (or “code”) in the short-term
store? And what evidence supports this view?
4.
What is the capacity of primary memory according to George Miller?
Describe the results of three different paradigms he used in his quest to
characterize our information processing limitation.
5.
What is the Brown-Peterson procedure? What findings have been obtained
with this procedure and how should they be interpreted?
6.
Describe Atkinson and Shiffrin’s dual-store model, including the structural
components, how forgetting occurs, primary code and how information is
transferred from one store to the next.
7.
Discuss the role of control processes in Atkinson and Shiffrin’s model.
8.
What is the Hebb effect and how did it influence Atkinson and Shiffrin’s
thinking?
9.
How does the modal model account for the primacy effect in free recall?
10. How does the modal model account for the recency effect in free recall?
11. What is the effect of imposing a distractor task before a free recall test, and
what are the implications of this effect for the modal model?
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12. Explain the results of the Tan & Ward (2000) study.
13. Consider the implications for the modal model of the findings obtained with
the continual distraction procedure.
14. What are the other shortcomings of the modal model?
15.
What are the strengths of the modal model?