Did you get candle, salt, power, mouth, rope, glasses, beard? Compare this score to your others!

So, what happened?  Did you remember the pictures, the words, or the sounds better?  Most psychologists would expect you to have remembered the spoken words better than the others.  They think there are three main types of information stored: semantic (which is the meaning of the word, in the first experiment), visual (what the word looks like, in the second), and acoustic (what the word sounds like, in the third).

When dealing with yout long term memory, most information is semantic, or based upon the meaning.  However, when dealing with your short term memory, most of the information is acoustic.  This is why psychologists think you would have remembered the sounds better.  So, you've found out how your memory keeps things stored.  Also, you've learned that sounds are kept better in your short term memory.  So, if its something you're trying to remember, use your voice!  
 
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