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MCAT Psychological Social Foundations Flashcards: 6b Memory Encoding Storage Retrieval

Study 6b Memory Encoding Storage Retrieval in MCAT Psychological Social Foundations with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is the Atkinson–Shiffrin (modal) model's three memory stores?

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Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory. Sequential stages where information flows from sensory to permanent storage.

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A researcher compares memory for a list of 30 words under two encoding instructions. In the shallow condition, participants judge whether each word is printed in uppercase. In the deep condition, participants judge whether each word fits into a meaningful sentence. After a 10-minute distractor task, all participants complete free recall. Which conclusion is most consistent with the levels-of-processing account of encoding and later retrieval?
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