{"id":1702,"date":"2016-09-08T18:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-collegesuccess\/?post_type=chapter&p=1702"},"modified":"2016-09-15T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:32:47","slug":"text-short-and-long-term-memory","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/chapter\/text-short-and-long-term-memory\/","title":{"raw":"Text: Short- and Long-Term Memory","rendered":"Text: Short- and Long-Term Memory"},"content":{"raw":"Sometimes students will feel confident understanding new material they just learned. Then, weeks later before an exam, they find that they can only remember what the instructor covered during the last few days\u2014the earlier material has vanished from the mind! What happened? Chances are that they\u00a0didn't\u00a0consistently and regularly review the material, and what they initially learned never made it to long-term memory.\r\n\r\nResearch indicates that people forget 80 percent of what they learn only a day later.[footnote]Student Counseling Service.\u00a0\"Long and Short Term Memory.\" The University of Chicago. 2016. Web. 10 Feb 2016.[\/footnote] This statistic may\u00a0not sound very encouraging, given all that you're expected\u00a0to learn and remember\u00a0as a college student. Really, though, it points to the importance of a different studying approach\u2014besides waiting until\u00a0the night before a final exam to review a semester's worth of readings and notes. When you learn something new, the goal is to \"lock it in\"\u00a0and move it from short-term memory, where it starts out, to long-term memory, where it can be accessed much later (like at the end of the semester or maybe years from now). Below are some\u00a0strategies for transferring short-term memory to\u00a0long-term memory:\r\n