Memory
The 3 Main Stages
Ever wonder how your memory works?
Stage Model of Memory
Sensory Memory
-Quick and rapidly replaced
Short Term Memory
-If new information is processed short term memory last about 20 seconds
Long Term Memory
-Infinite Capacity of information can be stored
-Can possibly use long term memory forever based how how often it is used
Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
In Short Term Memory, If you don't use it, you lose it is correct!
Long Term Memory
3 Things to Remember
-When sensory information is sent to the short term memory and it isn't repeated or used more than once that information is forgotten until it comes through again
-It is possible to remember information stored in your long term memory for the rest of your life and there is no limit to what you can remember but it is more likely to retain information longer by using it in your sensory and short term stages occasionally
Sources
Memory Types & Functions. (2011, July 10). Retrieved October 12, 2015.
<http://www.mind-expanding-techniques.net/memory-types.html>
Hockenbury, D., & Hockenbury, S. (2014). Discovering psychology (6th ed.).
New York: Worth.
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