AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Short-term memories last only for about 18-30 seconds while long-term memories may last for months or years, or even decades. The capacity of long-term memory is unlimited in contrast to short-term and working memory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Long-term memory can hold an unlimited amount of information for an indefinite period of time. Short-term memories become long-term memories in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. Another part of the brain called the cortex stores these long-term memories.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although the long-term memory process allows information to remain in the brain for an extended period, nothing in the brain avoids risk. Information stored in long-term memory can stay in the brain for a short while (a day, a week) or last as long as a lifetime.

Detailed explanation-4: -Long‐term memory (LTM) has an unlimited capacity and a very long duration; it is virtually limitless. Repetition and elaborative rehearsal (manipulation of information by giving it meaning) are helpful techniques in storing information in LTM.

Detailed explanation-5: -Over the long term, memories are encoded in neural patterns—circuits of connected neurons. And your brain’s ability to knit together new patterns is limitless, so theoretically the number of memories stored in those patterns is limitless as well.