The Three Memory Systems Sensory Long Term and Short Term Memory

             In this paper, I emphasize there is no such thing as a "bad" memory. Then I show the reader reasons for this explanation. First, I will discuss the three categories of memory: sensory, short term and long term memory. Then an overview of their characteristics and downfalls. Second, I talk about forgetting and the positive and negative aspects of it. Afterwards, I go into the measures of forgetting and the many theories that follow forgetting. I will also discuss two common diseases that involve memory in which I call "The Forgetting Diseases". Last I briefly talk about the five principles of remembering. All of these aspects of memory show what a memory cannot exist as a thing.
             The human mind has the ability to learn many things, but learning would be impossible without memory. Without it we would respond to every situation as if we have never experienced it. There are many misconceptions of memory. One of which is that many people believe they either have a "good" or a "bad" (e.g., cannot remember things well) memory as if it were a thing (e.g., object). The word memory is merely an abstraction that refers to a process (or many processes) rather than a structure (Higbee, 1996, p. 2). Memory is divided onto three sub categories: sensory, long term and short term memory. Later, I will discuss these three categories in detail.
             Memory depends on three consecutive stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding is learning the information and forming a memory file. Storage is placing this memory file into a compartment such as long term memory. Lastly, retrieval recovers the memory file from where it was stored. These stages can be compared to a filing cabinet. First, information is typed on a piece of paper. Then it is placed in the filing cabinet under the correct category. Last, when the file is needed again one would retrieve it. The information will not process, if we fail to achieve one or all of the...

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