MEMORY

SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM

MEMORY

Memory has two components – short-term, or operational, and

long-term. Students manage to “load” in their memory a lot of
information that vanishes just after exam. Patients suffering from
so-called senile forgetfulness remember in detail events that
occurred in early childhood or many years ago, but are unable to
keep in mind what happened half an hour ago.
MEMORY IS INDIVIDUAL
• Some people better remember what they saw, other – what they

heard. These are the phenomena of visual and auditory

memory.

• It’s a well-known fact that feelings play an important role in

remembering things. In a state of emotional splash memory

sometimes can call things, forgotten a long time ago.

• Motivation is very important too. If a person who considers

himself totally incapable of learning languages, finds himself in

a stressful situation in a foreign country he easily learns

language.