Atkinson and schifrin

One of the most influential models within the information processing paradigm was outlined by Atkinson and Shiffrin in an article in Scientific American in 1971. They suggested three types of memory store: 1. sensory stores, a temporary buffer store holding information from the environment very briefly in a relatively raw, unprocessed state and is modality specific (i.e. information is held in the form in which it is received, be it visual, auditory, tactile or olfactory). Some of this information is attended to and is transferred to ... 3 2. a short term store (STS) with very limited capacity and duration but were the mode of storage is influenced by reference to additional information already held and so this store is not a simple repository but is a working memory, responsible for decision making and problem solving. During rehearsal some of this information is passed to... 3. a long term store (LTS) of unlimited capacity and duration, storing information in all modalities.