Multi store model

Multi store model

1. Sensor register

   • Capacity: unlimited
   • Duration: 0.5 secs
   • Encoding: modality specific (iconic or echoic)
   • Forgetting: ‘trace decay’ info that is not paid attention to will be forgotten

2. Short term memory

   • Capacity: 5-9 items (increased by chunking)
   • Duration: 20 seconds, increased by maintenance rehearsal
   • Encoding: acoustic
   • Forgetting: displacement

3. Long term memory

   • Encoding: semantic
   • Capacity: unlimited
   • Duration: unlimited
   • Forgetting: retrieval failure