In
order to characterize the difference between the concept of short term memory
(as in the store model of memory) and the concept of working memory, one must
consider many different factors such as what we mean by “difference,”
“short-term,” “memory,” and so on, as well as many other complicated concepts
which have been detailed in our textbook and explained by Dr. Coulson in many
long lectures. In the store model of memory, information
travels from the sensory register into STM, where it is rehearsed until
transfer into LTM. In the Working
Memory model, there are three components: a visuospatial sketchpad, a
phonological loop, and the middle one.
Psychologists used to think STM and LTM were different, but now they
think they’re the same because of these reasons:
- proactive interference
-coding
-forgetting is the same