To illustrate the use of the long term and working memories in problem solving,
try this problem. You have won a prize from Window Whiz, a window washing service.
Window Whiz must know how many windows are in your house.
How many windows?
How did you solve the problem?
From your long term memory you called up a visual image (your mind's eye) of
your house. The image is placed in the working memory/short term memory.
In your mind's eye, you counted windows.
If you now commit the number of windows to the long term memory, you will have
solved the problem and have new knowledge. The next time you are asked how many
windows in your house, you will have that knowledge stored in the long term memory.
Or, if you have lost the key by which you can recall the information, you will have
to solve the problem again. Losing the key to recalling information that has been
stored is forgetting.
An interesting question is whether in your mind's eye you walked around the
outside of the house or visualized each room from inside and counted the windows.
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