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Identify the Memory Store
Description of Memory Store
Significant Fact About Memory Store
Sensory memory
Sight or iconic, useful for reflection of information
Sound or echoic memory is useful for the storage of the information coming from ears, also auditory information
Visual system which an individual forgets within seconds, thus not stored for longer.
A person’s iconic, echoic and visual systems are very essential for the information storage.
The constructive information like the eye witnesses in the courtroom are based on sensory memory.
Short-term memory
Information is repetitively stored. It is sometimes known as Rehearsal memory since the information stored can’t last longer, only 15 to 25 seconds.
The stored information has got a meaning to the person.
It involves rehearsal of the information, which is both elaborative and mnemonics. Rehearsed information is considered as elaborative when the information is fashioned and stored in an organized manner.
However, when the stored information generates the person organizations strategies it is considered as mnemonics
Long term memory
Elaborative rehearsal is tasked with the responsibility of moving information into long term memory.
It has the declarative memory which is responsible for a persons factual information. Thus knowledge and facts are stored here.
In addition, the episodic memory which stores events in ones life are stored in long term memory.
Additionally, it contain procedural memory which stores a persons skills and habits.
Furthermore, it has the semantic networks through which information is interconnected. Neuroscience of memory is well established for long term storage of information. They include, Hippocampus and Amygdala.
The neurons memory is organized in levels, like the long term potential and consolidation.