Short Term Memory cont.

Short term memory (working, conscience memory) - a short term storehouse for information that has been transferred and encoded from sensory memory.  What one is conscience of is the short term memory (STM).  Miller's work (in the 1950's and 1960's) demonstrated that STM is limited in storage and lasts only as long as one rehearses the information.  Through strategies of organizing or chuncking information, one can retain seven plus or minus two chunks.  Rehearsal or conscious repetition keeps memory from being forgotten.