Which of the following students provides the best overview of the current status of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
a. Flora: "It lost popularity after Miller's article on the 'magical number seven' failed to support the concept of short-term memory."
b. Nicola: "This model continues to be important because recent research clearly supports the distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory."
c. Bruce: "The research has not clearly demonstrated that short-term memory is different from long-term memory."
d. Miguel: "The model now plays a major role in the parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach."
Ans: c
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