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... or think that does not depend on memory. Memory There are two major types of memory that has been drawn to the attention of researchers, and they are the Short Term Memory, and the Long Term Memory. In my essay I will be looking at short-term memory, and two teams of psychologists whose findings on the subject are debatable. Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), proposed a theory for memory, and called it "The Multi-store Memory". This particular theory conceptualises our memory as being categorized into three different stores. These are the 'Sensory store', the 'Short-term store', and the 'Long-term store'. Each of these can be distinguished from each other by the capacity at which they hold information, the storage duration, and the encoding process of the information received. Below you can see a diagram of The Multi-store Model. Which shows you the three major sectors, which are the sensory, short-term, and long-term ...
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