Identify features of Atkinson and Shiffrin's multistore model of memory.

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Identify features of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model of memory

Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model consists of three parts. Sensory memory, long term memory and short term memory. Sensory memory is a storage system that holds information in one of two forms, Echoic or iconic. It is available for a short period of time. It is either forgotten or sent to the short-term memory. This is used for storing information for short periods of time, before being sent to the long-term memory, or forgotten. Long-term memory holds a lot of information and stores it for a long time, usually until death.

According to the multistore model of memory there are three separate parts of the memory system: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Describe the differences between sensory memory and short-term memory.

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Sensory memory lasts for only a short amount of time before it goes to the short-term memory, whilst the short term memory last for about 30 seconds. The capacity of short-term memory is, according to Miller (1956) is 7 +/- 2. This is called Miller’s magic number seven. Sensory memory comes in echoic and iconic senses, and is relatively not encoded.

Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model describes the way information is transferred to the long-term memory store. Outline how this happens.

Information is transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory by rehearsal. Rehearsal is basically repeating ...

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