<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Atkinson--Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin . The model asserts that human memory has three separate components: </P> <Ol> <Li> a sensory register, where sensory information enters memory, </Li> <Li> a short - term store, also called working memory or short - term memory, which receives and holds input from both the sensory register and the long - term store, and </Li> <Li> a long - term store, where information which has been rehearsed (explained below) in the short - term store is held indefinitely . </Li> </Ol> <Li> a sensory register, where sensory information enters memory, </Li>

Atkinson and shifrin's information-processing model of memory focuses on