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- Vol 3 RE: Chapter 1
modal memory modelsensory memoryshort-term memorylong-term memoryattention processesrehearsal processesretrieval processesBook chapter Evidence summaryAt a glance
Atkinson and Shiffrin propose the influential “modal model” of human memory. The framework separates relatively permanent structural features from flexible control processes and distinguishes three stores: sensory registers, a limited short-term store, and a long-term store.
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Information briefly enters sensory memory; selected material moves into short-term memory, where attention and rehearsal help maintain it; and some information is transferred to long-term memory for later retrieval. Control processes such as rehearsal, coding, search, and decision strategies vary with goals, instructions, tasks, and experience rather than operating as fixed structures. The chapter combines the general architecture with experimental models of particular memory tasks. Later research revised the idea of simple separate stores, but the model established enduring questions about capacity, control, encoding, and retrieval.
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