Memory

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Prince Sultan UniversityPSY101 - Group Project
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• Chapter 8 explores that human memory is a system
  that processes information in three steps.
  Encoding refers to the process of putting
  information into the memory system. Storage is
  the purely passive mechanism by which information
  is maintained in memory. Re-trieval is the
  process by which information is accessed from
  memory through recall or recognition.

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Lets test our memories

• You are now going to take a memory test.
• When the test begins you will be shown three
  pictures.
• Try your best to memorize the pictures.
• You will be given 60 seconds.
• After the pictures disappear write down what you
  can remember of them.
• Who has the best memory?

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• What is memory?
• Memory is the process of storing and retrieving
  information about the past.
• What would our lives be like without memory? How
  would we find our way home? Make a cup of coffee?
  Know our friends and family?
• Is there anything that we do not need our memory
  for?

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Types of Memory
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Implicit and Explicit Memory

• Implicit memory is memory for things not
  intentionally remembered. (without conscious
  thought)

• Explicit memory is when you intend to remember
  something (which requires conscious thought) e.g.
  you revise so that you can remember information
  in the exam.

• We may remember through implicit memory far more
  than we are consciously aware.

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