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Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model (MSM) of memory.
The multistore model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.
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CambridgeIGCSEPsychologyMemory and forgetting
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Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model (MSM) of memory. outcomes6 objectives
- The multistore model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.
- Different types of memory stores, including their input, capacity, duration, and retrieval: sensory register (SR) with the role of attention, short-term memory (STM), long-term memory (LTM), and the serial position effect which includes the primacy effect (better recall of initial information) and the recency effect (better recall of recent information).
- How Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model helps explain forgetting: displacement in short-term memory (STM) where new information causes loss of old information, decay in STM and sensory register (SR) due to lack of rehearsal, and access issues in long-term memory (LTM).
- Supporting evidence for Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model of memory, particularly from the study on the serial position effect conducted by Murdock.
- Critique of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model of memory, noting that it fails to account for the depth of processing.
- Applying knowledge of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model of memory and forgetting to new situations, including the concept of motivated forgetting.
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