How are maintenance rehearsals different from elaborative rehearsals?

Maintenance rehearsals maintain the information through repetition. The information is lost when the repetition is discontinued.

The short term memory system uses maintenance rehearsal to retain the information for a longer duration and it is carried through silent or vocal repetition.

On the other hand, elaborative rehearsals associate the information that is to be retained with the already existing information in long-term memory. The permanence of new information is determined by the number of associations that is created around it.

The incoming information is organised in many different ways by expanding the logical framework and creating a mental image.