APA Dictionary of Psychology

a global memory model used to explain recall and recognition memory in laboratory studies. Information may reside in short-term memory, from which it may be stored in long-term memory or used to search long-term memory. Associations can be formed among items in memory and between items and the context in which they occur. See also dual-store model of memory. [described in 1981 by U.S. cognitive psychologist Richard M. Shiffrin (1942–  ) and Dutch psychologist Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers]