If you meet someone and use her name immediately but cannot

If you meet someone and use her name immediately but cannot remember it a half-hour later, the name probably was in your

Solution

If you meet someone and use her name immediately but cannot remember it a half- hour later, the name probably was in your short term memory.

Short term memory is a capacity of holding the small amount of information in mind for a short period of time.

The duration of the short term memory is to be in a period of seconds.

Short term memory is also called as recent or working memory.

Short term memory involved in selection, initiation and termination of information process.

Short term memory is measured or estimated by memory span.

Short term memory recodes the information by linking new information to information already stored and available.

Recoding is a active control process and it includes rehearing process, retrieving information, response selection.

Any new information that enters short term memory will quickly displace the old information.