Question

Professor Smith refuses to learn his students’ names because he believes the names will take up space in his memory that he needs to store research-related information. Professor Smith’s belief about his memory is incorrect because __________

Answer 1

long-term storage holds unlimited amounts of information.

Step-by-step explanation:

Long-term memory or LTM is the final stage of the Information-Processing Model of memory given by Atkinson-Shiffrin.

Conceptually, the capacity of long-term memory is inexhaustible or limitless, the main limitation on recall being comprehensibility rather than availability.

Types of long-term memory:

1. Declarative memory- general knowledge, facts as well as personal experiences.

a. Episodic memory

b. Semantic memory

2. Procedural memory- skills of doing different things.