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Human Memory Organization. - College Essay

Human Memory Organization.

from the outside, seems to be quite a difficult thing
to analyse, and even more difficult to explain in black and white. This is
because of one main reason, no two humans are the same, and from this it follows
that no two brains are the same.

However, after saying that, it must be true that everyone's memory works in
roughly the same way, otherwise we would not be the race called humans. The way
the memory is arranged, is probably the most important part of our bodies, as it
is our memory that controls us.

I think that it is reasonable to suggest that our memory is ordered in some way,
and it is probably easy to think of it as three different sections : short term,
medium term, and long ...

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to do with it (use
it, or store it). Here also is where stored information is called to for
processing when needed. This kind of memory has some kind of limited storage
space, which is used when processing information, however the trade-off is that
is slower than Short term memory.

Long Term : Long term memory is the dumping ground for all of the used
information. Here is where the Medium term memory puts, and takes it's
information to and from. It has a large amount of space, but is relatively slow
in comparison with the other kinds of memory, and the way that the memory is
stored is dubious as we are all knows to forget things.

There is quite a good analogy in Sommerfield (forth edition p24-p25). Short term
memory is comparable to computers registers, medium term (Working memory) is
like a volatile storage place for information, and long term memory is like hard
disk storage.

I think that this is quite a good way of describing our own memory hierarchy.

It seems that when ...

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