Discuss the differences and similarities between Atkinson and Shiffrin and Baddeley and Hitch. Cognition and the mental processes.

... Assignment Discuss the DIFFERENCES and SIMILARITIES between Atkinson and Shiffrin and Baddeley and Hitch. Cognition is the mental processes in which we learn and understand things, and these processes include memory, recall, attention, and perception. We often use cognitive approaches to overcome problems whether conscious or subconsciously, and these cognitive approaches are necessary to allow our internal processes of learning, remembering and thinking to function. Without memory, everything we experience would be relatively new to the individual, and possibly unfamiliar. Meaning that just as Clive W. experienced a feeling of always regaining consciousness over and over again, our perspective of life would be of some similarity. Our memories work in mysterious ways, and there are various theories as to what happens up in our heads. Everything we have experienced already, and are to experience gets stored, but where? Many theories, or suggestions rather, stem from very educated psychologists who researched on the particular subject

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