Understanding Psychology
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, an...
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