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Multi-Store Model
An explanation of how we remember
One popular theory of how we remember was put forward by Atkinson and Shiffrin
in 1969. It proposed that the human memory is divided into 3 main sections:
Sensory memory
Information from around us such as visual images from the eyes and sound, smell,
etc enter the memory system here. The information that enters here may only
stay here until it 'decays' and is forgotten. But if you pay particular attention
to a piece of information - for example, you're focusing on an object or listening
to somebody speak, the information will be passed into the second 'part' of
our memory...
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