Multi-store model

The multi-store model (MSM) of memory Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968

Steps for describing the MSM

There are three separate stores; sensory, short-term (STM) and long-term (LTM). Sensory memory has a store for each of the senses, e.g. hearing, vision, touch. STM and LTM are unitary stores- each operates like a single unit with no separate compartments. Information passes through the system in a fixed sequence and can be lost at and stage.