Multi-store memory model

• Who proposed the Multi-store Model of Memory?

  Atkinson and Shiffrin
• What are the 6 elements of the Multi-store Model of Memory?

  • Sensory register
  • Attention
  • STM
  • Maintenance rehearsal
  • LTM
  • Retrieval
• What is the Sensory register?


  Its the place where information is held at each of the senses

  • Large capacity
  • Brief duration (millisecond)
  • Constantly receives information but most of this receives no attention