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Memory And Memory : The Three Types Of Memory

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Three Types of Memory Aisha Smaller P.5 10-24-17
What Are The Three Types of Memory?
What are the three types of memory? The three types of memory are the following; short term memory, long term memory, and sensory memory. Before I go into the three types of memory, let’s talk about one very important vocab word. The vocab word is the word memory. Memory refers to the how much information we can store and manipulate from our memory to our processing center, or working memory. Now that we understand the term memory, let’s talk about each of the three types of memory in detail.
First, sensory memory. What is sensory memory? According to the textbook, in the glossary, it defines sensory memory as, “the immediate, initial recording of …show more content…

Second, short term memory. What is short term memory? According to the textbook, short term memory is defined as the working memory, and in the glossary, it says; “memory that holds information briefly before it is stored and forgotten” (Chapter 7 Memory. and In Holt Psychology; Principles in Practice (pp. 161-166)]. What this means is that short term memory is the second step before long term memory. You use short term memory every day. For example, when you need to call someone and you have the phone number in your mind, it is in your short term memory. You probably need to write it down before the thought, or the phone number, disappears or fades from your short term memory. But, short term memory has its drawbacks. When you study for a test, the information will probably be transferred to your short term memory. When you’re done taking the test, the study information will disappear, because you don’t need the information for the test, and plus, it’s in your short term memory Sensory memory also branches off into iconic and echoic memory, which are the following; ionic memory is the buffer for when incoming visual information is stored as a picture or icon. Echoic memory stores sound.
What happens in short term memory? Well, information in this stage of memory fades after a few seconds, so here is the process: When information goes into short term memory, it’s stored, but the brain can only hold that information for 20-30 seconds at a time.

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