The Atkinson and Shiffrin's model predicts that delaying report and preventing rehearsal during that delay will impede the recency effect but not the primacy effect because ________.
A) material in long-term memory will be lost during the delay but material encoded into short-term memory will not be affected
B) of the so-called output artifact
C) material in short-term memory will be lost during the delay but material encoded into long-term memory will not be affected
D) the recency effect depends on the long-term memory systems

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The Atkinson and Shiffrin's model, also known as the multi-store model of memory, posits that information moves from sensory memory to short-term memory (STM) and then to long-term memory (LTM) with rehearsal. The recency effect, which is the improved recall of the most recent items, is attributed to items still being in STM. If rehearsal is prevented and reporting is delayed, items in STM may be forgotten, impacting the recency effect. However, items that have been encoded into LTM (contributing to the primacy effect) are not affected by this delay, as LTM is considered to have a much larger capacity and a longer duration.

The Atkinson and Shiffrin's Model Predicts That Delaying Report and Preventing