Chapter 7

I learned the differences between short term and long term memory in this chapter along with many other things. Short term memory only holds information for a short amount of time, usually about 10- 15 seconds unlike long term memory which the information is stored almost permanently. Memories can decay which means fade away over time which results in causing us to forget things or maybe less clearly remember things. I also learned that a great way to remember things is by chunking. Chunking is when you get a set of information and instead of just repeating the order of it all over and over again you group things up that are related in some way or make some sense to you and then it usually helps you remember more and it is an easier way of doing so. The average person's memory can hold about seven things at a time in short term memory for example if you see a list of ten items for a brief period of time then you have to recite them all from just remembering what you saw in those few seconds, usually most people can only remember about seven of the things form that list. Those are a couple things that I learned from reading this chapter seven.