Psychology
More on Long-term Memory Creation
Yovan P. Putra asked: When we study about memory in organism, we can use different point of view. We can study the memory using the cognitive psychology, cognitive neurology or any other standpoints. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, at least we can group memory in three categories, sensory register, Short-Term Memory (STM) and Long-Term Memory (LTM).After perceived by one of the senses, a stimulus then passed to the sensory register for the organism to recognize the coming stimulus. The memory created by sensory register is very short in duration hence very easy to decay. One example of this kind of memory is iconic memory, which perceived by visual sense, organism’s eyes.After passing the sensory register, the next phase is the Short-Term Memory (STM). Many studies done in the past to really understand the importance of Short-Term Memory. One of the studies being done by Allan Baddeley (Baddeley, A. D. (1997). Human Memory: Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Hove, Sussex: Psychology Press) when he came up with the new term, working memory to describe Short-Term Memory. As its name suggested, this kind of memory is also short in duration, but organisms, especially human do need this kind of memory to [...]
