Bad short term memory good long term

I was trying to look up if anyone else experienced this and came across this Quora question. First, I did really well in school. I never studied until I got to high school and by then I had breezed on by.

Is it possible to have a bad short - term memory. Why is my long - term memory so poor?

Dementia is a general term for cognitive decline that interferes with daily living. It’s progressive, which. Memory may gradually improve over time.

I will never learn this and up until the exact moment of the test, I remember nothing. We remember the facts important to our lives and the tasks that we repeat frequently. The rest of our daily experiences rarely become long -lasting memories.

In fact, we retain most information for only a few minutes or hours before it fades away. The short - term and long - term memory loss associated with chemotherapy treatments used to combat cancer is known as chemo brain.

For long term , you recall things in sequence - this person did this, then that happened as a result of it. Short-term memory is usually filled with blanks and corrupted data, and has yet to be processed fully. In a sense, short-term memory is just long - term memory in waiting.

Both short - term and working memory use the prefrontal cortex whereas long - term memory lives in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex. Medical conditions and injuries can cause. BuzzFeed Staff, Mexico. Take a good , long look at this GIF. There are already comprehensive so I’ll steer clear of unnecessarily repeating what has already been stated.

Horrible short term memory , good long term memory. For example, I can tell you what I bought at the store yesterday and which cashier rang up my groceries. BUT as always, I can also tell you that I forgot where I parked while I was in the store. To learn how information makes its way out of long - term memory , see the next page. Researchers have found some simple (but weird) ways to improve short - term memory.

There are many possible causes of short - term memory loss, some of which are only temporary and can be remedied. However, many of the medical conditions that cause short - term memory loss are permanent and will eventually lead to long - term memory loss as well. Now, the question is, is this difference in memory a good thing or a bad thing?

Well… I think it really depends on how you look at it.

Obviously to struggle with short-term memory and recall can be a really big disadvantage, and believe it or not, having a good long - term memory has its disadvantages, too. A good night’s rest really can improve your memory in the long term. The good news is that rebooting your sleep schedule isn’t that hard to do. If you stick with it, your memory should stay.

I honestly had no idea where to post this. For the purpose of a discussion on memory loss, short term memory is equivalent to very recent memories, usually measured in minutes-to-days. Examples of short term memory include where you parked your car this morning, what you had for lunch yesterday, and remembering details from a book that you read a few days ago. It is possible that one form of memory is stronger than the other due to that part of the brain being stronger.

Possibly an injury to the hea at some point, may have damaged the weaker part. Working memory refers to the processes that are used to temporarily store, organize, and manipulate information. I used to be very good with names, someone would tell me their name and I would remember it RIGHT AWAY, even if I saw that person months later I would know their name.

Short - term memory , on the other han refers only to the temporary storage of information in memory.