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What happens when you try to remember some piece of information, say some fact about memory itself?

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There are many different ideas about memory but the most common explanation is Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin’s (1968) stage model of memory.

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First the items you are perceiving go into our sensory memory. We cannot attend to everything, so some information is lost in a second or two.

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What we attend to goes into our short ­term memory where it can be held for about 18 seconds, or longer if we use maintenance rehearsal. 

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Maintenance rehearsal is often just repeating the item to yourself over and over. Short ­term memory is also often called working memory.

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Items we want to remember more permanently are transferred to long term memory. We use elaborative rehearsal for this step. 

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To bring an item back to mind, we move the item from long­ term memory back to short ­term memory. This activity will focus on short ­term memory.