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

Long-term memory (LTM) 

Provides extra storage and can send things to long term memory. It helps explain how people can combine their long term memory with recently processed stimuli to remember more complex things (often associated with chunking).

Episodic buffer

A curve that displays how well respondents recall words depending on how long ago they were displayed.

Serial position curve 

Types of long term memory

Taking information from long term memory and transferring it to working memory.

Retrieval

The process of acquiring information and sending it to long term memory (WM to LTM).

Encoding

Psychologist, Daniel Schacter, provides specifics about how fragile long-term memory can be, through the seven sins of memory, which provide seven ways our long term memory can fail us.  

The Seven Sins of Memory

A chef preparing a meal glances at a recipe for a specific measurement (e.g., '1/2 teaspoon of salt'), holds that information in mind just long enough to measure it, and then forgets the exact amount moments later. Later, without any notes, the chef perfectly recreates a complex sauce they first learned to make 20 years ago. Which statement best analyzes the distinction between the two memory functions demonstrated?

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the function of the memory system characterized by a vast capacity and a duration that can last for years or even a lifetime?

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