Long term memory

• Function

  • permanent store of what an individual has “learned”
  • poorly understood

• Representation

  • semantic patterns - each individual stores information according to their own individual interpretation
  • memorising is acquiring suitable patterns; remembering is correct retrieval of patterns

• Capacity

  • effectively unlimited

• Duration

  • unlimited, but degraded by confusion between old schema /new info. and vice versa

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