The First Stage of the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model Involved the Retention

question 115

Multiple Choice

The first stage of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model involved the retention of large amounts of incoming data for very brief amounts of time.This is called ____.

• A)declarative memory
• B)short-term memory
• C)sensory memory
• D)explicit memory

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