Memory Summary- Week 2
September 3, 2014
Gabrielle McCray, Charmee Jones, Michael Hall, Denise Hernandez
PSY/211: Essentials of Psychology
Instructor: Shannon Hilligoss
University of Phoenix- Chicago Loop Learning Center
The process for encoding starts with changing information into a usable form, in order to create new memories. When the information is encoded, it is stored in the memory. We are not aware of what is stored in the memories until we actually need to remember something. This is when the retrieval process lets us move the memories stored surface to the consciousness. Understanding how your memory works can help you learn faster and more efficiently. For example, if you can read something now and are able to recall the information at a later time then you have a good memory. However, if you have to read something and study it over and over, then your memory type is different. Either way your memory comes down to you as the individual.
Sensory memory is holds information of our surrounding, for short periods of time, it take a pictures of our surrounding, so we can remember certain details before the memory fades away, or becomes replaced by another one. With sensory memory there is may be a time where information is kept for longer periods of time or we may choose to pay closer attention to our surrounding or environment. When that occurs that information is then stored into our short term memory. For example: Have your ever had to
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