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.
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