MRCPsych Part A revision podcast on memory, covering encoding, storage, retrieval, the multi-store model of memory, working memory and types of long-term memory in cognitive psychology.

This MRCPsych revision episode explores the fundamental processes of memory, including encoding, storage and retrieval, and explains how information is converted, maintained and later accessed from memory. The episode introduces the multi-store model of memory proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin, including the primacy and recency effects.

The episode also examines the capacity of short-term memory, including research by George A. Miller and the role of chunking in improving memory performance. It then explores the working memory model.

Finally, the episode discusses different types of long-term memory including episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory.

These concepts frequently appear in MRCPsych Part A examination questions involving memory systems, cognitive psychology and memory disorders in psychiatry.

This episode maps directly to paragraph 1.1.4 of the Royal College of Psychiatrists membership examination, MRCPsych Part A syllabus.