For this blog post, I will discuss short-term memory and how it pertains to my short term memory loss due to an accident as a kid. While on a car ride home from cheerleading practice with my parents we were hit b a truck. Because of this I had suffered some damage to my brain which affected my short term memory. Now as an adult I am given specific orders at work that pertain to numbers and am constantly told to use excel. I am also required to receive and reports on events that had happened during the day. Depending on the length of the report and numbers, they could be difficult to report accurately. The capacity and duration of short-term memory and the use of chunking to expand the capacity did have an effect on my job performance.
Short term memory is person’s performance on a particular type of task that involves the retention of small amounts of information for a brief time (Lewis, 2019). For example following an excel spread sheet with numbers then having to report it drove me insane, because I could not remember how to do it in a short amount of time. There would be times that there were 10 different cells used in excel for numbers and formulas, and I had to reference one half then go back and reference the other so I could remember all the digits and formula. It was the same with reports. I have to look at it multiple times to remember the task at hand.
I also noticed that chunking was very helpful if the number and formulas held any significance, . This is because different numbers and formulas became only two separate items instead of multiple separate items, but the numbers and formulas in excel hold no significance for me, so I would have to recall each number individually.
Even if a group of numbers and formulas are memorized, that memory may flourish over a very short period of time. I definitely experienced this. While it was simple to recall certain numbers and formulas during the few seconds, it was much more difficult to recall the same numbers and formulas only a minute or two later when attempting to finish the excel spreadsheet and send the report to my supervisor.
The use of short-term memory was consistent throughout my childhood all the way through my adulthood. Short-term memory can be crucial when dealing with important tasks, such as numbers and formulas. Tests have been conducted in order to study the processes of memory in humans. I believe that they are accurate, and I have gained a more knowledge and understanding of the cognitive processes involved with memory.
Lewis. (2019, July 31). Why is working memory important in note-taking? Glean. Retrieved October 18, 2021, from https://glean.co/blog/why-is-working-memory-important-in-note-taking/.
First of all, I read your blog post with interest, and I agree with your opinion. Short-term memory, or working memory, in my opinion, is a memory during an activity that actively processes information, and is a temporary memory store that maintains information received from sensory memory while processing it. In the case of sensory memory, it is difficult to experience consciously because it lasts only for a very short time, whereas short-term memory is conscious. As a result, short-term memory refers to short-lived memories, and what I learned through lessons and your blog is that most of the content we are aware of is in short-term memory. Also, short-term memory is dominated by sound, and the process of maintaining short-term memory as sound is called rehearsal. For example, when we need to memorize certain numbers or words, we can remember them in the short term if we repeat them out loud over and over again. However, short-term memory is not unconditionally memorized by sound. Images are also remembered, but the important thing is that short-term memory can only remember a limited capacity. An example of short-term memory used in real life in my opinion is grocery shopping. I write down what to buy and go, but there are times when I mumble with my mouth and keep repeating it over and over so as not to forget what I need to buy. If you keep repeating yourself, you will not forget the things you should have bought and buy them. However, while rehearsing, talking on the phone with a friend, or listening to a song, if the rehearsal is not repeated, he or she forgets to buy something. In this way, we found that short-term memory does not remain in our memory for long if we do not repeat it, and if we do not remember it continuously.