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Summary
UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY
Fourth Edition
Robert S. Feldman
CHAPTER 7. MEMORY
p. 218 – 230
KELA -I
University of Tartu Narva College
2014
Encoding, Storage , and Retrieval of Memory .

Encoding refers to the process by which information is initially recorded in a form usable to memory.
Memory specialists speak of storage, the maintenance of material saved in the memory system. If the material is not stored adequately, it can not be recalled later.
Memory also depends on one last process: retrieval. In retrieval, material in memory storage is located, brought into awareness, and utilized.
In sum, psychologists consider memory as the process by which we encode, store , and retrieve information. Each of three parts of this definition – encoding, storage, and retrieval – represents a different process.
Forgetting unnecessary information is as essential to the proper functioning of memory as is remembering material.