Memory

• Memory


  Experiencing something, storing it somewhere (your brain), and remembering it later on
• Memory


  • A collection of very complex systems
  • The systems are interconnected and interact with each other
• Stages of memory


  1. Encoding: the moment of learning what we see

  2. Storage: keeping it safe in our brain, sorting it into categories

  3. Retrieval: a brain finding that memory within your brain
• Types of memory storage

  • Sensory: a fraction of a second
  • Short term: holds information for more than a second but less than a minute
  • Long term: anything over a minute. Hours, days, weeks, years.
• Things we remember the most


  • Things at the start or end of a sequence
  • Things that are out of place or odd
  • Repetition