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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).

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Cambridge IGCSE PsychologyMemory and forgetting

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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)

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