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What experimental evidence is there for the existence of multiple memory systems?
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What experimental evidence is there for the existence of multiple memory systems? Memory forms an important part of cognitive psychology and has been of interest to numerous psychologists. This essay is going to refer specifically to the information-processing model of memory and will discuss the experimental evidence that exists for multiple memory systems. The multi-store model of memory was first developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) and Waugh and Norman (1965).1 It comprises sensory stores, short term-store and long-term store to form a model of memory and information processing. One component of the system is the sensory register, where our feature detection and pattern recognition processes produce a cognitive code that can be stored for a brief period. The sensory storage does not depend on resource allocation, so the person does not need to pay attention to the stimuli, and the coding happens automatically. The sensory register is thought to...
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