7/17/2019 Assignmenhkht II

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Assignment II

A. What are the meaning of short term and long term memory? Explain thedierent between them with an example in your daily life.

Meaning of short term and long term memory;

• Short term memory is means system for temporarily

storing and managing information required to arry

out omplex ogniti!e tas"s suh as learning#

reasoning# and omprehension.

•   Long-term memory is# ob!iously enough# intended for

storage of information o!er a long period of time.$espite our e!eryday impressions of forgetting# it

seems li"ely that long%term memory atually deays

!ery little o!er time# and an store a

seemingly unlimited amount of informationalmost

indenitely.

$ierent between short term and long term with examples;

•  Short term is ability for human brain to "eep

information. &or examples of short%term memory in

ation are the holding on to a piee of information

temporarily in order to omplete a tas" li"es 'arrying

o!er( a number in a subtration sum# or remembering a

persuasi!e argument until another person )nishes

tal"ing.•

*ong term memory is where we store memories forlong periods of time. And also gets se!eral of struture

suh li"es episodi memory and semanti memory. &or

examples# we remember what we ate yesterday

brea"fast and whate!er we do in the past. We an

ommuniate our memories to oursel!es and othes.