Short-term Memory (Noun)
Meaning
What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The researcher asked the participant to recall the sequence of numbers to test her short-term memory.
- People with good short-term memory can easily repeat a phone number they just heard.
- The comedian relied on his exceptional short-term memory to repeat the audience's responses verbatim.
- The teacher gave her students a series of random words to test their short-term memory by recalling them in the same order.
- Musicians often use their short-term memory to learn and repeat musical phrases after hearing them only once.