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Compare the differences between any two models of memory.
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Compare the differences between any two memory models In 1968, Atkinson and Shiffrin suggested that they could explain memory as three distinct stores; the Sensory memory (this holds information for an extremely brief time), the STM (which had limited capacity and a very short duration) and the LTM (which had unlimited capacity and was potentially timeless in its duration). They said that if a person "focused" on information in the Sensory model, the information is then transferred to the STM. They then said that the information would travel to the LTM through rehearsal, they claimed that the more the information is rehearsed the better it would be stored in the LTM. ff Rehearsal Baddeley and Hitch put forward their own, theory on memory six years later, but it only explained short-short term memory. They said that the Short term memory was in fact a number of different stores. They believed this, as...
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