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GCSE Psychology · key term
An explanation of memory involving separate sensory, short-term and long-term stores, with information moving between them.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Memory StructuresThe multi-store model explains these differences by proposing three memory stores: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. These are parts of an explanatory model, rather than three literal containers in the brain.
Paper 2
An explanation of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in which information passes through three separate stores: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory.
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Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the Multi-store Model of memory in 1968. It is a cognitive explanation: it describes how the mind processes information. The model distinguishes three separate stores — the sensory store, short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM).
