PSYB57H3 Chapter 6: chapter 6
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Ideas regarding the nature and function of short-tem storage have evolved considerably during the last hundred years www. notesolution. com. William james: primary memory , secondary memory, and. Consciousness: the first discussion of a distinction between short-term and long-term storage systems was put forth by pioneering american psychologist william james in the late 19th century. Ready accessibility: the high level of accessibility of information stored in short-term memory was demonstrated in a classic set of studies conducted by saul sternberg (1966, Information held in short-term memory is very quickly accessible and the time to access information in short-term memory is very short. The atkinson-shiffrin model: the relationship of short- term and. the atkinson-shiffrin model could not account for this result: with a poorly functioning short-term memory, according to atkinson- Shiffrin model: the function of short-term storage in the baddeley-hitch model is not primarily as a way station for information to reside en route to long-term memory.