Psychology Memory
Psychology memory or the psychology of memory deals with a person’s or animal’s ability to store information, retain the information that is stored and recall that information upon mental command.
There are three types of memory. Information begins at the first type of memory, which is called sensory storage. When a person smells something, thinks it smells like a rose, then the thought passes in a second, that is sensory storage memory. Information proceeds into short term memory, the next level of memory storage when it needs to be retained for a short period of time, ex: minutes. Long term storage, the last type of memory holds information that we use daily or thoughts that we focus on a lot.
There are three basic processes that form the foundation of memory:
Encoding: the process of coding a memory to help it make it into storage. An analogy would be labeling a file to make sure it makes it into a file cabinet.
Storage: maintaining coded information in memory storage over a long period of time. An analogy of this would be keeping a database for the files in file cabinet so that they can be easily retrieved.
Retrieval: retrieving information from storage for use. An analogy of this would be looking up the file on the database and taking it out of the file cabinet to read.
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