Memory: The Three Types Of Human Memory

Memory is very important to human beings. Memory helps people remember and memory helps people forget. People can remember happy moments in their life and this makes them happy, but they can also remember bad moments in their life which would make them unhappy, so that’s why forgetting is also as important as remembering since people can forget these unpleasant moments and keep living happy. Memory is remembering things you did in the past and bring it back to your consciousness and use it. Our brain has the ability of keeping all these experiences for a later time so we can use it and keep going with our life. The process of human memory is acquiring or encoding the information, storing it, retrieving it whenever we need it then possibly forget it. There are three types of human memory, Sensory memory which is used for speaking and listening which usually stays for 2-3 seconds. Secondly we have our short term memory, which usually stays for about a minute. Then we have our long term memory which stays with us for a lifetime.

Encoding is when information comes into our memory from our sensory inputs like sight, …show more content…
This information in the short term memory is there because we paid attention to our sensory memories. Short term memory is very brief, they usually last for seconds and the short term memory is very limited, it can hold only five to nine things at the same time. Usually, a large part of the information stored in the short term memory will be stored for 20-30 seconds. Although some information can last for up to one minute, most of the information will rapidly be forgotten. For example, if a car cut you off on the road and you quickly start memorizing the cars number plate, moments later you will realize that you already forgot the number. For that number to reach your long-term memory you will have to keep repeating the number until it is