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Rebecca Johnson Memory-Miss Wilson 1. Outline the main features of the Multi-Store model of memory (6 marks) Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the Multi-Store model of memory in 1968. The model was also called the two-process because of the importance of the two stores, which are Short-term memory (STM) and Long-term memory (LTM). The model describes memory in terms of information flowing through a system. In this system the information is detected by the sense organs and enters the sensory memory (SM). If we attend to this information it enters the STM and this information can be transferred to the LTM only if that information is rehearsed. However if this rehearsal does not occur then the information is forgotten through displacement or decay. 2. What is meant by the term 'Flashbulb Memory'? Outline one explanation of 'Flashbulb Memories' (3+3) Flashbulb Memories are when people have a particularly strong and often-detailed...
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