Baddeley Memory Model Upd May 2026

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1. Historical Context: Replacing the "Short-Term Store" Before 1974, the dominant view of memory (the Atkinson-Shiffrin multi-store model) proposed a single, passive "short-term store" that acted as a temporary holding buffer before information was rehearsed into long-term memory. baddeley memory model