The Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, also known as the multi-store model, is a theory of human memory proposed in 1968 by the psychologists Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin, describing memory as made up of three separate stores through which information passes. The sensory register is the point where sensory information from the environment first enters the memory system and is held very briefly. Information that receives attention passes to the short-term store, sometimes called working memory, which holds a limited amount of information for a limited time and also receives input retrieved from the long-term store. Information sufficiently rehearsed while in the short-term store transfers into the long-term store, which is capable of holding information indefinitely. The model was highly influential in establishing memory as a set of distinct, sequential processing stages rather than a single undifferentiated faculty, and though later researchers have proposed refinements and alternatives, including more detailed accounts of working memory, the Atkinson-Shiffrin model remains a standard starting point for describing how information moves from sensation into lasting memory.
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Core ClaimHuman memory operates through three separate stores, a brief sensory register, a limited capacity short term store, and a long term store that holds rehearsed information indefinitely, with information moving between them through attention and rehearsal. 1 FAQs
Does rehearsal alone move information into long-term memory?
Critics say depth of meaning predicts long-term recall better than rehearsal alone.
In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, rehearsal in the short-term store is what allows information to be stored more permanently. Later critics argued that rehearsal as the key transfer process has very little evidence behind it, and that long-term recall is better predicted by a levels-of-processing framework, in which items encoded at a deeper, more semantic level leave stronger traces in long-term memory.
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
Developed By: Richard Shiffrin, Lead
The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
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