... it therefore goes to your working memory (because thinking about it, therefore, working what's now in your memory.). So whatever information is not attended to is lost. The main senses are the iconic memory, the echoic memory and the haptic memory. Iconic standing for visual, echoic for aural, and haptic for the touch. These all have different capacities so therefore affect the way which it will be stored in the long-term memory. The working memory; this is where all of your information is processed through to be encoded to our long term memory. This is also where the retrieved information is worked. But during the process, information may be forgotten. This store of memory has a limited capacity of holding information. The long term memory; this is where all of your remembered information stays. According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory the only way that information can be kept is by rehearsing it to ...

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