... multi-store model was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) and quickly became the standard explanation of the memory system, it is often called the modal memory and focuses on short term and long-term memory in particular. In addition to describing the structural features of the memory system and proposed various control processes, which were strategies used by individuals to manipulate the information flowing through the system. This approach suggests that memory is characterised as information flowing through a system and also suggests that long-term and short-term memory operate differently in terms of capacity and duration. An essential feature of the multi-store model is that there are distinctive short-term and long-term stores. There does seem to be fairly strong support for a difference between long-term memory and short-term memory in terms of duration, capacity, effects of brain damage and forgetting mechanisms. This is different from working memory, which is set on the theory that ...

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