Working memory definition, examples and training

WORKING MEMORY

The task of the working memory is to keep useful information during all work stages. When it is over, all knowledge slowly disappears. Here I am talking about weak fixing temporary memory that allows doing a few jobs at a time. One of its’ function is to remind of knowledge that had previously been stored in long term memory for the sake of precision in current work task. It also permits us not to pay attention to what we see and hear, if those are only usual daily appearances of life. That’s why we do not remember all the strangers that we meet and all little noises and sounds that we hear throughout the day. Memory is not only mechanical storage of a lot of events in the head. As has already been said, the power of short term memory is very limited. However, we could increase it many times if we worked using all data groups, not just a few separate events or isolated elements. 

One of the qualities of our memory is creation of multiple associations. If we want to improve on it, we have to use this special quality by joining information we want to remember to some specific system. If there is a lot of this type of information we have to group it according to its’ qualities, the process which is often called ‘chunking’.

Memory cannot be separated from organization of some kind of cognizance. The more associations are created the easier new impressions are recorded. This is how our memories grow. We add more and more impressions while more and more objects are recognized by our brains and more familiar things are easier attributed to some known remembering system. Try to notice what happens in your brains when you remember new information. Feel how new separate words arise in your memory.