How Short and Long Term Memory Work

What is your short-term memory? When processing a memory and sending it to a "short-term" location in the brain, it is held for a limited time. It can be accessed and used at any time while you are still available and fresh to your heart. Of course, that has its limit. Dr. George Miller tested and believed that people do not usually remember what exceeds 7 orders of magnitude (although it is in short term memory). These memories can be sent long after repeated and recall increment.

Since we have technology, let's talk about two memories: long-term memory and work memory. You may have heard about long-term memory and short-term memory, but cognitive psychologists call short-term memory "working memory". There is a difference in the concept of short-term memory and work memory, but these two are exchangeable for non-experts. Working memory acts as a "scratch pad" for processing information. Work memory is the place where "thinking" is done. Working memory is obtained by sensing information from the outside world or by taking it out by retrieving it from long term memory and by considering it. Working memory has three important things: it has limited capacity for a limited period, and is very unstable.

Working memory is not part of long-term memory, but it is important for long-term memory. Working memory stores and manipulates information in a short period of time before being forgotten or encoded in long term memory. Then, in order to remember something in long - term memory it has to be returned to working memory. When working memory becomes overloaded, it influences long-term memory encoding. If someone has good working memory, they may have better long - term memory coding.

Long term memory Long term memory is different from short term memory and working memory. The information stored in the short-term bank may flow into the long-term memory partition through rehearsal and subsequent association process. Scientists claim that "long-term potentiation process involves physical changes in the neural structure proposed as a mechanism from short-term memory to long-term preservation" (Peterson, 1959). For example, a woman may claim that her father often sexually harassed during the age of three. Men may remember having sexual intercourse when the family was 14 years old. Frequently suppressed memory appears to be another problem in treatment, it may be an eating disorder or depression