Multistore Model Of Memory Atkinson 2003

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Duration of Short-Term Memory
Cognitive psychology studies the processes that occur while performing tasks and how these processes can be affected by external factors. Relying on “American Psychological Association” (2002) memory is a cognitive process use to encode, store, and retrieve information through our past experiences. According to Psychology glossary, interference refers as the disturbing effect of new learning on the performance of previously learned behavior with which it is inconsistent. Hence, the amount of information retained is limited and follows different pathways.
The Multistore Model of Memory by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) is based on the premise that memory consists of a number of separate stores and that memory processes