Long-term memory

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• How long would information stays in short-term memory?
  • It's hard to measure how long the information would live because a person may rehearse the information over and over again until it goes to Long-term memory
• Types of Long-term Memory
  • The types of Long-term memory:
• Information in memory is being represented not stored
  • In the book Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology, the author is being very careful in using the word represented, rather than stored, when talking about the Long-term memory. This is due to the similar concern of The name short-term memory may emphasise too much on storage. Information in our memory is not stored as-is, and it may be different when you recall it in the future.
• Three ways information is being represented in memory
  • All these type of codings are applicable to Long-term memory and Short-term memory.