Short Term Memory Analysis

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With respect to this course, PM is related to multiple other topics within cognitive psychology. One being short term memory (STM), when you are thinking of the intention to do something at a later time that goes into STM and stays for about 10-15 seconds. But the difference between PM and STM is that with PM you don’t keep rehearsing the intention in your head to keep it in STM because you have additional intervening task to complete first so therefore the intention falls out of STM (Goldstein, 2015). Long term memory (LTM) relates because PM is a type of LTM, LTM stores knowledge for an extended period of time. Since there is no rehearsal to keep information in STM, one must encode the information into LTM so it can be retrieved at a later time or day (Goldstein, 2015). Encoding happens when you are learning the material and retrieval is when you remember the material and pull it out of LTM. The last connection that will be made is …show more content…

But now I know it means making sure to perform a scheduled action or recall an arranged intention at a later time, such as remembering to take your medication at 7:00 P.M. Now that I know what PM means and have done quite a bit of research on the topic, I have found the topic to be more interesting than when I first heard about it in class. During my article search I really didn’t know much about how one studied PM but as I dug further in the research I found out that you can look at PM in two ways’ event based and time based as discussed earlier. What I didn’t think I would find in the PM research was studies looking at eye tracking and PM together. This study on eye tracking really intrigued me due to the lack of research of the two topics together so I would be interested to see more research done with eye tracking in this

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