MSM outlined

• what is memory?

  an organisms ability to store, retain and recall information.
• stages of memory

  1. encoding: changing incoming information (new memory) so that it can be stored.
  2. storage: holding information in the memory system
  3. retrieval: recovering (remembering) information from storage
• unitary definition

  stores are seperate and working independently
• linear definition

  information 'flows' in the same direction
• atkinson and shiffrin (1968): the MSM

  suggested memory is a process that passes through a number of 'stores' during the journey to long term memory