Short term memory is a mechanism for storing temporary information, such as where you parked your car or numbers in a simple arithmetic problems.
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(STM) The capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. The duration of short-term memory (when rehearsal or active maintenance is prevented) is believed to be in the order of seconds.
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Short-term memory (or `primary` or `active memory`) is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. The duration of short-term memory (when rehearsal or active maintenance is prevented) is believed to be in the order of seconds. A commonly cited capacity is 7
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A phase of memory in which a limited amount of information may be held for several seconds to minutes.
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A phase of memory in which a limited amount of information may be held for several seconds or minutes.
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<psychology> Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which refers to material stored for days, years, or a lifetime. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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what one is conscious of at a given moment; in contrast to long-term memory it is of limited capacity (about seven items) and will be lost unless rehearsed and related to information in long-term memory.
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(STM) Type: Term Definitions: 1. that phase of the memory process in which stimuli that have been recognized and registered are stored briefly; decay occurs rapidly, sometimes within seconds, but may be held indefinitely by using rehearsal as a holding process by which to recycle material over and over through STM. Synonyms: temp...
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Short-term memory: A system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Short-term memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data. One test of short-t...
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(STM) the memory used for keeping information for periods of time up to a few seconds. See WORKING MEMORY.
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[
n] - what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
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this is an earlier term for ‘working memory’. The working memory can be defined as the mental space in which we hold information for a relatively short time while we do something with that information. The term working memory makes it clear that there is active processing taking place, such as the execution of instructions or the addition of tw...
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STM noun what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
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(STM) Memory processes associated with preservation of recent experiences and with retrieval of information from long-term memory; short-term memory is of limited capacity and stores information for only a short length of time without rehearsal.
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A memory system that stores a limited amount of information for a brief period.
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