"Long-term memory is a dynamic system, where information is modified." In what way differs it from the sensory- and the short-term memory? Long-term memory differs from sensory- and short-term memory in three ways: It's capacity is extremely large and can, for practical purposes, be considered, unlike the sensory- and the short-term memory, as unlimited. That is, according to some theorists going back to Freud, everything that you have ever learned or experienced, might be stored and available for retrieval from long-term memory if you could just find a way to access it. Imagine an old experience and try to remind an experience that you had not thought about in years. Clearly the memory was there, but simply not retrieved for years. Once information is stored in the long-term memory, it is more resistent to forgetting than information in sensory- or short-term memory. But you probably do not remember all the details of an experience which has happened before. However, that is due to the fact that those detailes never past through the sensory- and short-term memory. Items in the long-term memory are richly interconnected. When new information is added to the long-term memory, it is associated with a lot of exsisting information that bears a relationship with it. It would be untrue to consider the long-term memory as a big archive, in which of all kinds of information are separated and ordered properly. The long-term memory has its own dynamic system, in which the information is modified and transformed.  Further reading:   Long-term memory   Short-term memory 1   Short-term memory 2   Long and short-term Do you have more information about Long-term memory? Please share it in our database. [ TOP ]   © ThinkQuest Team 26618. All Rights Reserved.