Memory game - short or long-term memory? There is a game where &quot;a suitcase is packed&quot; and you have to remember all the words or objects that are packed into the suitcase.
Each participant adds a new word to the &quot;chain of words&quot; one after the other.
I wonder whether this information is stored in the &quot;long-term memory&quot; or whether it only remains in the &quot;short-term memory&quot;.
Short-term memory capacity is very limited (How much can users hold in their short term memory), and that seems to be a fundamental property of short-term memory (Can working memory actually be improved?). So the longer this game progressed, the less likely it would be that players could keep the information in short-term memory. A few items would be fine. Ten items would be difficult, and items would start to drop out of short-term memory.
Memory experts use techniques like the method of loci to associate new information with an existing structure held in long-term memory. So they would have a significant advantage in this game.