what is the difference between short term, long- term memory?

Question

What is the difference between short-term and long-term memory? What did Donald Broadbent mean when he referenced “attention filters,” as related to encoding into short-term memory?

Answer 1

Well when I took Psyhchology the official definition of short term memory is 30 seconds or less, long term memory is anyhting longer than that. Not everything enters your long term emory and it it significant evens that tend to do so.

Answer 2

I am willing to help you out, what was the question again. I knew I hit answer for a reason, short term is a year of less and long term is over two years. Events that occur with other significant senses. Like remembering you were victim of a robbery, not the date but the intense fear experienced. Or the smell of baking cookies that grandma made when you were a child.

Answer 3

Long-term memory refers to the memories of your whole life and short-term memory refers to the last 45 minutes.
There is still another "ultra-short-term memory" of the last 10 or 15 seconds and to get it from this into your short-term memory it must be important enough or you must give intentionally enough attention to an information to get it into your short-term memory.

Answer 4

I don't know, but I sure do have some serious short-term memory, I can think about doing something and a second later forget what I was gonna do,lol.

Answer 5

it's simple can explained with the following examples.
1> have u heard about the RAM , ROM in computer system.
RAM takes data for processing & deleted that after the program execution where ROM contains Volitile data which remains permanenet,
2> The simple day to day example remembering like your ticket number of your BUS or Train ticket.
just visit
a> http://www.wikipedia.org
b> http://www.psychologyinfo.com
c> http://www.selfgrowth.com/psychology.html

Answer 6

to keep our brain in check