Short term memory:
All information is processed in the brain and stored in short term memory. The
problem is that this information sort of overloads the brain and is not kept
for very long. Can you remember every single event that happened to you in a
given day? Think of the literally thousands of bits of information you are
exposed to every day. It's not necessary to remember it all, so the brain dumps
it after a time.
Can you remember what you had for breakfast the day before yesterday? What
shirt you wore? How much lunch cost? How many steps there are in preparing for
exams ? No. What makes you think you will remember some factoid from class,
that you never heard of before? Sure you may remember it for a day or
two, but that's it. Only when you make an effort to remember something
repeatedly do you transfer that information into the other kind of memory, long
term memory.
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