A software developer is designing a user interface and wants to ensure that temporary notifications do not overload a user's cognitive capacity. According to the multi-store model of memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968), once sensory information is attended to, it is processed in the short-term store.
Outline two characteristics of the 'short-term store' as conceptualised in this model.
177 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Working memory model, Multi-store model of memory, Episodic and semantic long-term memory, Reconstructive memory and schema theory, Individual differences in memory, and Developmental psychology in memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.