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- Short-term Memory
- Long-term Memory
- Affective System
- Motor System
- Sensory memory
- Working memory
- Recognition memory

Memory Systems of Brain ("Structural features")

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

The retention of a small amount of information for a brief period of time. It can hold information for 15-20 seconds and can hold 5-7 items.

Short-term memory (STM)

Can hold a lot of information for years (even decades). Sometimes described as an archive of information.

Long-term memory (LTM) 

The retention of sensory information for a very brief period of time. An initial stage of memory that holds information for seconds or fractions of seconds.

Sensory memory

Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily. Working memory is important for reasoning, learning and comprehension. Some of the manipulation of information takes place in working memory

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