ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses short-term store itself, dealing with the issues of how information is forgotten from short-term store, how much information can be held in short-term store, the form in which information is represented in short-term store, and the processes by which information is retrieved from short-term store. It provides the rationale for why such a concept as short-term store should be included in a theory of memory to begin with. The claim that the closer a word is to the end of the list, the higher is its probability of being in short-term store when recall begins, and words that are in short-term store are recalled perfectly. The chapter presents evidence that when raw, sensory information is pattern recognized and placed into short-term store, its representation there is basically auditory. It discusses the hypothesis of auditory information storage in short-term store makes sense from an intuitive or introspective point of view.
