Question

Post an example of short-term memory loss that you have experienced.

Then explain your short-term memory loss within the context of the working memory model.

Finally, explain strategies you might use to improve your short-term memory function.

Answer 1

An example of short-term memory loss that i have experienced is my loss of memory when I experienced great financial stress due to loss of my job. I had bills to pay and loans to repay. This made me lose my short term memory.

Working memory is short term memory. However, instead of all information going into one single store, for different types of information there are types of systems.Strategies we might use to improve our short-term memory function include making things we want to remember as part of our habit I.e. procedure as procedural memory is always better. Thus repeating things we want to remember is a good effort.