Short-Term Continued Research

  I've discovered four new interesting factors to the wonderful art of the short-term memory.
1. The fast forgetful-ness of short-term memory isn't really a bad thing. This meaning that if you were to remember every single little detail in your life without it disappearing, your head would be so jumbled that it would be impossible to focus. Short-term helps make irrelevant things that you don't need go away, and keep the main outcome. For example, if you had to add 8+4+3+2+9 your head would do the math to 26 and you wouldn't need to remember 8,4,3,2, and 9. All that your mind would need would be 26.
2. It helps us sort out a general image of the world. Your memory intakes many things, about 5 screenshots per second, and it helps piece together those little images to a larger picture.
3. On the spot goals are kept in mind at the moment to help guide us.
4.In a conversation, past references made in it are recalled. If you said Billy in a past sentence, you will remember and say he or his instead. The person will know that you aren't talking about Joe or David.

A very interesting thing I learned was that people compare Short-term memory to the Central Processing Unit in computers. In both, information is received, it stores it, gets it and can do various things like keeping it for later, displaying it, or printing it/doing it. I found this very intriguing that computers and humans are so similar. #matrix