


The short term memory stores approximately 7 +/-2 items in an acoustic code (we remember things by sound) for approximately 15-30 seconds. There are three distinct stages of the system sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory, information passes through each stage of the system in a linear fashion (or fixed pattern).Įxternal stimuli first enter the sensory memory in an uncoded form where they can be registered for very brief periods of time in order for information to be passed into the short term memory store attention is vital. A01 Outline: The multi-store of memory was proposed by Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) it suggests that memory is a flow of information through a system.
