Short And Long Term Memory Analysis Essay

A long term memory loss that I have experience was being able play a clarinet. When I was younger there were many instruments that I could play quite well but somehow forgot how the music and the corresponding chords that go with the music read. I found this out recently when my daughter decided she wanted to join band and the instrument she decided to play, I was ecstatic and discussed how I could help her with practicing because of my prior experience. However the day she came home with sheet music and need assistance I was in a total loss. It was like my mind went blank and I couldn’t seem to remember, quite embarrassing with my daughter looking at me in a clueless look.
According to Cowan (1999) the amount of attention focused on a primary memory is restricted to four categories of information that resides in the working memory, which have to be retrieved to …show more content…
Information can be process in three ways shallow process which involves structural processing and phonemic processing (McLeod, 2007). Deep processing which involves sematic process which is being able to see the meaning of a work and the similar words with similar meaning (McLeod, 2007). In regards to playing the clarinet would be in consideration of shallow processing. Being able to look at the notes on the music sheets is structural process which is how appearance of how letters look. Shallow process also includes the maintenance rehearsal on being to access this information by repetition which this information stores in short term (McLeod, 2007). According to Craik and Lockhart (1972) deep processing enhances long term memory rather than shallow processing. The deep processing increases retention due to elaborative encoding, this enhances the memory by activating numerous aspects of meaning by correlating of pre-existing sematic