ABSTRACT
During the 1960s, cognitive psychologists began to explore how people process information. They were heavily influenced by the advent of computers and tried to identify similarities between human information processing and computer information processing. The three different types of human memory are sensory memory, which holds information for a short period of time in a physical form that is uninterpreted; short-term memory/working memory; and long-term memory. Long-term memory differs in significant ways from short-term or working memory. Long-term memory is of essentially unlimited duration. In general, children’s memory improves with age. Every day the child has new episodic memories: a visit to the zoo, books read with parents, and interactions at the playground. Gradually these episodic memories develop into semantic memories.
