... to be rehearsed it will be transferred to our long-term memory store. Without rehearsal, the information will be forgotten, and therefore not transferred to our LTM store. To remember and recall the memory, which has been transferred to our long-term store, all the brain has to do is retrieve it. The act of retrieval is the third part of the model. There are various positive assessments that can be made of the Atkinson and Shiffrin model. It describes just three distinct memory stores, which is easy to understand and elegant in its simplicity. It also shows the difference between encoding (how it enters each store), duration (how long it can stay in each store), and capacity (how many items each store can hold - it says the short term store is limited whilst the long term store can hold an unlimited amount of items). The idea of STM and LTM continues to ...

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