Our Long-Term Memory is often linked to the hard-drive on a computer. This is where we store information for retrieval or in other words later need.
Role? Hold information
How Big? Large, unlimited!
Time it Will Last? Long
How Does it get in? Maintenance and Elaborate rehearsal-encoding (what we learned in Working Memory).
We Want the Information to Stay in so we Have too:
1. Up the time in Working Memory
2. Up the number of times in goes into working Memory
3. Make it Meaningful to us- tie in
How Big? Large, unlimited!
Time it Will Last? Long
How Does it get in? Maintenance and Elaborate rehearsal-encoding (what we learned in Working Memory).
We Want the Information to Stay in so we Have too:
1. Up the time in Working Memory
2. Up the number of times in goes into working Memory
3. Make it Meaningful to us- tie in
We are learning more and more that number three is VERY IMPORTANT. "Skilled activities and memory skills" are needed to be able to move important information from Working Memory to Long-Term Memory (Ericsson and Kitsch, 1995). To be able to get things back out of our Long-Term Memory one has to make sure it has importance while in Working Memory to then be keep for long periods in Long-Term Memory (Ericsson and Kitsch, 1995).
This is How Our Long-Term Memory Works
Types of Memory or Knowledge:
Declarative: knowing "that." There are two types. Example: Knowing you know who the seven continents.
1. Episodic: personal things, like a movie playing in your head.
2. Semantic: general world knowledge, like vocabulary words.
Procedural: knowing "how." Example: Knowing you know how to ride a bike.
1. Episodic: personal things, like a movie playing in your head.
2. Semantic: general world knowledge, like vocabulary words.
Procedural: knowing "how." Example: Knowing you know how to ride a bike.