How does information we hear go to either long or short-term memory?

Question

We hear one fact & BOOM; we cam recall it at will. Other info we hear & 10 minutes later we don't remember ever hearing it before.
What determines if the info goes to long or short-term memory?

Answer 1

All information that eventually gets stored into your long-term memory passes through your short-term ("working") memory first.

Your short-term memory can only hold about 7 +/- 2 pieces of information at a time. As you acquire more information, it is inevitable that you will forget some of it. The information that you remember will typically be what you heard first and what you heard last (primacy and recency effects).

All information that is stored in your long-term memory has gone through the rehearsal process. Rehearsal is basically what it sounds like - doing things (such as repeating the information over and over) to help you remember information. While rehearsal can be in the form of pure repetition, it can also come in other forms. Ex: If you see a car crash, later see it on the news, and also describe it to a friend you are repeating the information. This is why emotional memories tend to be remembered very vividly.

However, it should also be noted that rehearsal does not guarantee that the information will end up in your long-term memory. It only makes it more likely. Ex: calling a relative, repeating their number over and over, dialing, and then forgetting minutes later.


Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Its all about attending to the information. Let's do an example. You are in kindergarten, you glance at the chalkboard and see it has a form. You can't remember it in 20 seconds, that is sensory memory. By the middle of class you can see, identify and recite the ABC's. That is short term memory. Summer comes and you go to first grade, you can't recall all the alphabet but the ones you can recall are in your long term memory. So you have sensory memory, that lasts 20 seconds. If you see an accident and don't attend to the car the people in the car and the license plate and you forget it in 20 seconds-that is sensory memory (this also applies to the other senses) unless you are hypnotized and can recall the car, the people and the license number you aren't aware that even sensory memory is stored for a longer time than one thinks. I hope this helps

Answer 3

with the aid of fact in spite of is inflicting the guy to lose his short-term memory may well be a modern-day progression that got here approximately after many long-term strategies have been geared up. My grandmother has surprisingly much no short-term memory, yet she will undergo in strategies the call of her extreme college classmates from 1939.

Answer 4

If you have emotions attached to the info, it lasts far longer in memory.

Answer 5

I think if it's something we want to remember it's in the long term, if it's not interesting it's short term.

Answer 6

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