Discuss the three important ways in which the short-term and long-term memory systems differ.

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--Short-term and long-term memory processes differ in terms of storage capacity,duration,and in the types of memory errors that occur.Short-term memory seems to be limited to a storage capacity of approximately five to nine chunks of information,although some researchers have suggested an even more limited capacity (more chunking may be occurring than researchers can either assess or simply realize).Long-term memory,by contrast,has a seemingly unending storage capacity.
--Short-term memories vanish after approximately 20 seconds,while long-term memories endure for days,months,years,and even the rest of our lives.As long as we have appropriate retrieval cues we may be able to access information from our long-term memory.
--Short-term memory errors seem to be based on acoustic information rather than the semantic information that accompanies long-term memory errors.While short-term memory errors are likely to involve mistaking what word we've heard (e.g. ,a heavily accented statement of lake is heard as like by someone unfamiliar with the dialect),long-term memory errors occur regarding the meaning of the information.For example,a witness to an automobile accident misremembers a car driving through a yellow light and hitting another car as the offending driver running through a red light.

Discuss the Three Important Ways in Which the Short-Term and Long-Term