n Learning. To store information that can be used for later use, such as tying ones shoelace, is very important for humans. Information being stored can be stored in three different memory capacities we have: sensory memory, short-term memory, or long-term memory. In sensory memory, the human holds “sensory information for a brief period after the physical stimulus is no longer available” (Internet). An example of this may be looking at slides of pictures. Someone looks at different pictures for a short period of time, and so, the image stays stored in the memory for only a short time. This means that people see more objects than they are able to recall immediately after they see them all. In every day life, we use this when we meet people, and try to remember their names, we hear their name for an instance, and unless we use tactics to move this information to our short-term memory, we will only remember it for an instance. This memory helps very little when trying to learn anything because it will only be stored for a quick instance. On the other had short-term memory stays in a person mind for a couple of seconds, and maybe even minutes, which can be useful to use in the learning process. Short-term memory is where “conscious thinking and processing of information take place” (Shulman). We move sensory memory information to short memory information, by continuously thinking about a specific thing, or by bringing importance, or meaning to the information. Basically, whatever we are thinking about in a particular instance is in our short-term memory. The key characteristic of short-term memory is that “unless the information is important in meaningful way or is being actively rehearsed or repeated, it quickly leaves short-term memory and is ‘forgotten’ when new information displaces it as we begin to think about something else” (Sternberg 288), unlike long-term memory. In long term-memory...
