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describe and evaluate one ttheory of memory/eyewitness tesimony
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1a) One theory of Memory is that of Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) which suggests that memory composes of three stores. These are known as the Multi-Store Model, which divides into the sensory memory, short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) .The proposal by Atkinson and Shiffrin is that information from the environment flows into the sensory memory, where it is stored for a brief period of time before either decaying or if attended to, passing on to the STM, sensory memory can be iconic or echoic. Capacity in the STM is limited and when not attended to information is lost via displacement or it decays. Coding in the STM is assumed to be in terms of sound. The theory also suggests that through rehearsal the information is stored for longer than 30 seconds in the short term memory, enabling it to pass through to the LTM store. Information in the...
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