In order to characterize the difference between the concept of short term memory (as in the store model of memory) and the concept of working memory, one must consider many different factors such as what we mean by “difference,” “short-term,” “memory,” and so on, as well as many other complicated concepts which have been detailed in our textbook and explained by Dr. Coulson in many long lectures. In the store model of memory, information travels from the sensory register into STM, where it is rehearsed until transfer into LTM.  In the Working Memory model, there are three components: a visuospatial sketchpad, a phonological loop, and the middle one.  Psychologists used to think STM and LTM were different, but now they think they’re the same because of these reasons:

 

        - proactive interference

        -coding

        -forgetting is the same