SHORT TERM MEMORY &

WORKING MEMORY
ALIAH ATIQAH BINTI MOHD ROSMAN
AFIQAH BINTI MOHD TARMIZI
Closely related Storing
to working information
memory temporarily

SHORT-
TERM
MEMORY Determine if it
will be
Also known as dismissed/
primary/active transferred
memory
A person can
remember incidents
from 20 years ago
Available for a but is fuzzy on the
short period of details of things
time that happened 20
minutes prior.
 working
memory vs
short term
memory

WORKING MEMORY SHORT TERM MEMORY

Emphasizes brain’s manipulation of

information it receives Limited capacity

Often thought as brain’s ‘scratch pad’ that As we grow older, the shorter amount of time
keeps information we can store information
 CHUNKING OF
INFORMATION

-To increase short term memory capacity

-Organization of material into shorter meaningful

groups to make them more manageable

PHONE NUMBER
EXAMPLE: (SPLIT INTO 3/ 4 DIGITS)

Herbert Simon- ideal size for chunking= 3 digits

 REHEARSAL

Process where information is kept in short-term

memory by mentally repeating it.

When the information is repeated each time, that

information is reentered into the short-term
memory, thus keeping that information for another
10 to 20 seconds (the average storage time for
short-term memory).