Types of Memories

Types of Memories

1. Short-term

   • short-term memory is the very short time that you keep something in mind before either dismissing it or transferring it to long-term memory.

2. Memory actually takes many different forms. We know that when we store a memory, we are storing information. .

   • The biggest categories of memory are short-term memory (or working memory) and long-term memory, based on the amount of time the memory is stored.
     • Both can weaken due to age, or a variety of other reasons and clinical conditions that affect memory

3. Long-term

   • Long-term memory is our brain's system for storing, managing, and retrieving information. Learn more about it.
     • TYPES of long-term memories
       • Explicit(declarative)
         • -requires consciousness
           • e.g. what you had for dinner OR the name of the person you met yesterday
         • -associative
           • e.g. when you think of dinner, your brain will automatically bring up all associates such as who you had dinner with, where and when
         • episodic
         • semantic
       • implicit
         • -doesn't require consciousness
         • -flows effortlessly in action
         • procedural
           • enables us to carry out everyday tasks without constantly thinking about it
             • e.g. driving, tying shoes
             • although we can do it without thinking about it, it is still hard to verbalise it
       • Autobiographical
         • from the moment of birth, each of us is exposed to a world full of sensations and information.
         • experiences such as first kisses, soft summer breezes, familiar places, sad farewell has potential to be autobiographical
       • Memory and Morepheus
         • myths of sleeps and dreams
     • long-term memories are more complex than short-term

4. two major types