This seemingly unconscious attention to certain mechanical aspects of skill performance has the added benefit of helping to free valuable memory resources for increased storage of new information. Long and Short-Term Memory Experts remember and can recall a great deal of information about their subject in both the near and long term. They can recall minute details from events immediately past, as well as from events long ago. Their ability to exceed the limitations of short-term memory is due to the automaticity in many of their behaviors. Having rehearsed routines frees up short-term memory for more information storage.
Experts store knowledge in recognizable chunks that are organized in strategically significant ways.
Experts surpass less advanced specialists in recalling sensible diagrams but not in recalling meaningless ones. Self Monitoring Skills Experts are more aware of errors made and better at predicting accurately which problems were difficult during problem solving. They objectively and honestly assess and identify their short-comings and knowledge deficiencies with a high degree of precision. They are, therefore, better able to accurately analyze the cause of their failure, and take corrective action. These superior monitoring skills and self-knowledge of experts are attributed to their vast knowledge and the way that knowledge is stored in memory.