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SAQ Cognitive Perspective Outline and explain the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Memory (8 marks) The Atkinson and Shiffrin Model of Memory (1968) was a theory based upon the process of information absorbed through the senses and how it moves into the long-term memory. They concluded at first, that there were two memory stores, one of them being the short-term memory and the other, the long-term memory. Soon afterwards, there was a third store added to this model of memory. The sensory memory. This is a diagram which sums up the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory diagram: So in order to understand how this created model of memory works, we must understand the terms employed. Sensory memory: this is where all of the incoming information which come via through your senses (visual, aural, oral, smell, touch). And due to our selective attention we only attend to some information. And then, it is then processed through our short-term...

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