What is short -term memory?

When a person does not have a pen and gets a phone number that must immediately call, can you remember this phone number (usually 7 digits) for more than a few seconds? It can be a difficult thing that remembers the numbers in order and reserves them in what is called short -term memory, which can also be called active or working memory. Most people who received a phone number could remember at least 5 numbers, many people can remember all 7 of them, and some of them remembered an even longer number. However, when the seconds go through, the memory would not be maintained unless the person holds the number in memory by repeating it very regularly. Although short -term memory is short, it lasts about 20 seconds for most things, there is an even shorter memory process called sensory memory. This gains visual and sound (seen and heard) information and maintains a copy. However, we tend to remember none of it, because these copies will last less than a second.

Unlike short -term memory and sensory memory, long -term memory is. This imposes all the things we remembered, and according to many psychologists, many things we don't know we remembered. It is a huge network or unit for storing data that constantly collects more information on how people progress through life. When people want to transform short -term memory into longer -term, they must usually be given a specific meaning or remain.

The reason why the first paragraph was used in the first paragraph is that a study of short -term memory is often done by people asking to remember numbers of numbers. In the 1950s and since then, it has repeatedly shown that people reliably remember 7 plus or minus 2 digits. Those who seem to have the best short -term memory of numbers can also better long -term memories of numbers and do it with a process called chunking. Místo zapamatování si sedmimístné sekvence mají teNdence to remember three and four -digit sequences. People who remember phone numbers, social security numbers, and the like, usually developed a process of buzzing numbers, so they are easy.

The difference between short and long -term memory is important and can help people learn and remember. It really makes people know that learning style must include a way to make things meaningful to move memories into the brain area where they will remember more than a few seconds. There are many different learning strategies that can help in this respect.