Cognitive Psychology: Short Term and Long Term Memory
The debate surrounding the field of psychology and the many theories and studies that are being produced on an almost daily basis makes the current time-frame an era that is both interesting and confrontational. This is especially true of the many cognitive theories that have been espoused and sometimes taken as gospel in the field. Even some of the founders of the science are questioning whether all aspects of what they once believed is true. "Cognitive psychology is coming under question, such as Jerome Bruner's Acts of Meaning, which represents a challenge to cognitive psychology by one of the founders of the discipline" (Malm 68). Even though the discipline is coming under fire and is the cause of many a vehement debate, it did, and does, provide the world with plenty of enlightenments of the workings of the brain, and in particular the workings of the brain that have to do with memory; short-term memory, long-term memory and sensory memory and how each of them work together. There have been plenty of researchers that have shown that effective usage of all three categories of memory can enhance the overall memory as well as each individual category. One study shows, "The long-term memory results
There has been so much in the way of research, and we continue to learn new methods of attention and memory every day, that an attempt to describe the many processes necessary in regards to cognitive psychology would fill an entire encyclopedia, that's part of what makes it so interesting to study. "Facial affect recognition ability correlated with verbal comprehension" (Poole pg. 121). indicated that successful short-term recall enhanced later long-term recall, regardless of age level" (Kausler pg 315). Not to be mistaken for recognition is the term recall. "Recall involves a search or retrieval process, followed by a decision or recognition process based on the appropriateness of the retrieved information" (Eysenck pg. 175). The question of how all the memories interact and relate to each other is coming under intense scrutiny as more and more of these types of studies prove that they are indeed interrelated. Eysenck refers to these catagories as "stores" and describes each "store" in the following way, " 1). Sensory stores, each of which holds information very briefly and is modality-specific (limited to one sensory modality) 2). A short-term store of very limited capacity 3). A long-term store of essentially unlimited capacity which can hold information over extremely long periods of time" (Eysenck pg. 152). "Memory networks overlap and interact profusely with one another, such that a cellular assembly can be
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