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Working memory model

The working memory model can be seen as a development of the multi-store model of memory. What is called short-term memory in the original model is changed to a more sophisticated version in the working memory model. This is an example of how theories and models develop over time as science produces new findings. Baddeley and Hitch (1974) were among the first to challenge the view that STM is a single store. Their...

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