There's two main parts: short-term and long-term. Think of the long-term memory like an investment portfolio. As you gather more and more schemas, you gain intellectual compound interest over time. They all begin to connect to each other, increasing your understanding of the world exponentially over time, but for information, to get to your long-term memory in the first place, it has to go through a part of the short-term memory called working memory. Working memory has slots where we process information. It acts as a bottleneck for the infinite amount of information around us.
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Like in a computer hard disk, information that is retained for long periods of time is in our long-term memory and is not easy to recall reflexively, as it is outside our conscious awareness.
Our short-term memory (also called working memory or active memo...
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