Memory -- Three Theoretical Spaces

1. Short-Term Sensory Storage
2. Short-Term Memory
3. Long-Term Memory

This is what I learnt for my human factors engineering module... Whenever we are exposed to information, it will go through these three stages. Firstly, in stage 1, we usually make a decision whether to "entertain" the information. This normally took less abt 0.5 to 1 sec to process. So human always choose to entertain things they are interested in while ignoring the rest. After choosing to acknowlegde the stimulus, it will undergo stage 2. It become part of our short-term memory also known as working memory. There are many ways in which people make use of their working memory. One of the useful way is to give it a semantic meaningfulness i.e. try to link it to our other memories so that we don't just remember the incident by itself. The poorest way is through rehearsal. Most of us probably study for our exams that way(last min). Haha...

Lastly,it will become our long-term memory. Our long-term memory is like our computer hard-disk with a lot of memory space. How well we can retrieve these vast source of memories depends on how one choose to organise. The good thing is that once it is in our long-term memory, it will unknowningly stay with us. It only depends on whether the person wanna retrieve the piece of "information". Exceptions are when deteroiation with age and illness.

Hence, we can always choose to ignore some unwanted memories but it still will stay with us till the day we die. But the good thing is that we get to choose... isn't it? May our hard-disk be always filled with wonderful memories.

Thanks my bros for celebrating my Bdae n e present. Cheers~

Thx for the memories...

KL