PSY100Y5 Chapter 7: Textbook summary chapter 7
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Three key processes involved in memory are encoding (getting information in), storage (maintaining it), and retrieval (getting it out). Storage involves maintaining encoding information in memory over time. Retrieval involves recovering information from memory stores. Just as memory involves more than storage, forgetting involves more than losing something from the memory store. Forgetting may be due to deficiencies in encoding, storage, or retrieval. Like the problem of forgetting people"s names just after you"ve met them, the next-in-line effect illustrates that active encoding is a crucial process in memory. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Attention is often likened to a filter that screens out most potential stimuli while allowing a select few to pass thorough into conscious awareness. There is debate weather stimuli are screened out early, during sensory input, or late, after the brain has processed the meaning or significance of the input. Attention involves late selection, based on the meaning of input.
