Talk:Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model

Removed tag
I have removed the 'wikify' tag as I cannot see how this article does not fit the Manual of Style. Stonemaccas Sep 19th 2006

Reasoning for Grading
Hello there folks, i recently added the Rating of this article, and i gave it the quality of a start-class article. It's going towards a B at the moment, but needs to be referenced and well wikified/verified in some areas. Let's aim to quote and reference well, and get this to a Featured article.

This is also an important topic, as whilst the majority of it's assumptions were somewhat lacking with biological and neurological evidence, it's still a very important topic in psychology as it heralded much further research into memory and helped develop some other memory models also. That's all for now :-) Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to FA this article's ass off! James S 16:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Clive Wearing
Is the Clive Wearing mentioned in the article this Clive Wearing? Traumrune (talk) 17:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Review
The article gives a nice overview of what the Atkinson-Shuffrin memory model is, but it does not elaborate enough. It would be nice to have the opening in simpler terms. Also, it would not hurt to give more background on Atkinson and Shiffrin. There is a good number of subheadings, but the information under the subheadings is not as in depth as it could be. The information presented should be able to teach someone about the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, who has never heard of it before. There are only three references cited at the end of this article. There are numerous places where information could be cited. If the article is to be taken more seriously, there needs to be a lot more sources represented. This article could stand more information for each subheading and more citations. Doing these things can make this article more informative and reliable. Bro47024 (talk) 20:42, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Great points. Such a highly trafficked and important article deserves more attention to detail than it has been given---I research cognitive psychology for a living and I found it tough to read. I'll take a look at it and make it a bit more understandable, well-sourced, and in-depth over the next few days. Adam Blake (talk) 20:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Expert help needed
The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Memory is mentioned in the article Storage, section short-term memory. However, the text is rather confusing. I don't know enough about A-S memory model to be able to edit it myself, but I hope one of you could help. Please see Talk:Storage. Thank you! Lova Falk    talk   18:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Some comments
A quick review of the state of the article, as requested by User:AB Blake. On quick overview, the article is looking very good: good structure and summary, and generally clear writing.

One stylistic point: on Wikipedia, bold is used very sparingly: for the article title in the first sentence, for terms that are strictly synonymous with the article title and for a couple of odd things like volume numbers in journal citations. So the bold in the first sentence is absolutely fine, but there are technical terms throughout the article that are bold but which need to be in italics instead (such as the components of the model).

When explaining the model, you need to be clear throughout that you are talking about a model that has changed over time, not the present state of knowledge. For instance in the "Short-term store" and "Long term memory" sections, you need to be clear what is true "according to the model..." and what is experimentally demonstrated independently of the model.

In terms of content, some sentences could be expanded, e.g. "The original evidence [...] was experimentally demonstrated for the visual system using a tachistoscope" - needs to be spelled out. What is the nature of the demonstration? Remember that Wikipedia readers might never have read anything about psychology before.

Any paragraph that doesn't have a reference needs attention, especially if that paragraph makes grand claims about the state of the evidence. I'm thinking in particular of "While it is generally agreed that there is a sensory register for each sense, most of the research in the area has focused on the visual and auditory systems.". You need to cite this to show that it's an academic mainstream point and not your own interpretation.

Hope this is useful and sorry I don't have time for a deeper review. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:27, 7 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the review --- always so much better to get a fresh set of eyes on something you've been working on for a while. I made the quick stylistic edits, and I will be going back and cleaning up the explanations to be more clear on the excellent points that you made. Thank you so much for your time. This is very helpful! -- Adam Blake (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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