FUNCTIONS OF MEMORY
FUNCTIONS OF MEMORYTHE FUNCTIONS OF MEMORY
Memory is the ability to remember past events, images, ideas, or previously learned information or skills. Memory is also the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information.
There are three key processes to memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Each of the three stages in memory-sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory focuses on encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Sensory memory performs initial encoding and provides brief storage. Semsory memory can change a visual, auditory, or chemical stimulus into a form the brain can interpret, like a photograph. Sensory memory is temporary. Once information is received, it is transferred for additional encoding and storage. Unless you quickly
transfer it to short-term memory by writing it down or repeating it, you will forget it.
Short-term memory is the storage system that temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use. Short-term memory must further...
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