Leon is reading on his cell phone at a busy railway station. An announcement says that his train will leave from a different platform. Leon misses his train and cannot remember hearing the announcement at all.
Use the multi-store model to explain why Leon has no memory of the announcement.
70 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 1.1 Memory, covering 1.1.1 Processes of memory, 1.1.2 Types of memory, 1.1.3 Multi-store model of memory, 1.1.4 Features of each memory store, 1.1.5 Primacy and recency effects, 1.1.6 Working memory model components, 1.1.7 Features of working memory components, 1.1.8 Dual processing tasks, 1.1.9 Reconstructive memory theory, 1.1.10 Bartlett's War of the Ghosts study, and 1.1.11 Factors affecting accuracy of memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.