When you clicked to move on it then asked you to fill in the boxes with as many words as you could remember, spelled correctly. You then had to pick your age group, your gender and what country you were from. Upon hitting the check my memory button it told you how you compared with similar people to you who also took this test (How good is your memory- Memory Test, n.d.).
Of the twelve words I could recall 7 of them. The explanation of the test results explained that on average our short-term memory can hold an average of 7 chunks of information (names, numbers, etc.) + or - 2. So if someone scores between 5 and 9 of the words on the list, their short-term memory is working at an average capacity (How good is your memory- Memory Test, n.d.).
The more that one repeats something the more likely they are to remember it. Things start out in ones short-term or working memory and then are moved to long-term memory. The ability to retrieve information that is stored in long-term memory depends a lot on how it is coded. The better things are coded the easier that it will be to recall those pieces of information. It is also easier to recall a thing if one associates that piece of information with something else. The association helps with the coding which ultimately helps with retrieval. If I had associated the words during the memory test, I might have been able to recall more than seven of them.
Scientists are always trying to figure out how the human memory works and yet many things about human memory and many of the ideas and theories about it are still quite controversial. A good theory of human memory should not only recognize a set of processes and stores, but also be able to help answer questions about how long it will take to retrieve information and when information will be forgotten or become inaccessible. The theory must specify properties of the processes and stores. In other words it must specify if a store might have a maximum capacity of information that it can hold at a given time. Knowing a store's capacity and what...
0-14 you may want to consider getting a professional evaluation" (Mohs, n.d.). In regards to this memory test the first two questions in which you were given three words and then a name and address to remember, the concept of encoding was being used. In order to retrieve these pieces of information from my memory, I first had to encode them. Once they were encoded they were stored first in my
Memory has been separated into three categories on the basis of the "amount of time the memory lasts." (Zhang, 2004, p.1) The three categories are stated to include the following: (1) sensory memory; (2) short-term memory; and (3) long-term memory. (Zhang, 2004, p.1) The focus of this brief study is to describe each of these memory storage processes. Sensory Memory & Short-Term Memory Sensory memory is reported to act as "a buffer
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Psychology Memories are an important part of the human experience. They help us define who we are, based on our past experiences, the people we have met, the places we have been and the things that we have done. Yet, there is much that we take for granted about memories, and they are often misunderstood. Consider for example criminal trials, where testimony is given on the basis of what people remember
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