What Is the Current Status of the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Memory

question 61

Multiple Choice

What is the current status of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory?

• A) Almost all of the recent research supports the model.
• B) Only the concept of sensory memory is still of interest to researchers.
• C) The theory has been completely abandoned, because there is no research support for the distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory.
• D) Some studies support the distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory, but other studies suggest that these two forms of memory are actually similar

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Definitions:

Complementary Inputs

Goods or services that are used together in production and whose use is interconnected, such that an increase in demand for one increases the demand for the other.

Marginal Physical Product

The marginal physical product is the change in output resulting from employing one more unit of a particular input, holding other inputs constant.

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption patterns due to a change in the relative prices of goods, leading consumers to replace more expensive items with cheaper alternatives.

Margin

Margin refers to the difference between the selling price of a good or service and its cost of production, also used to describe profit margin or markup.