Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0623 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Encoding
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The idea
Encoding is the conversion of incoming information into a form the memory system can hold.
In practice
Hearing a name and converting it into a stored representation is encoding, and it fails often.
Where people slip
Most everyday forgetting is encoding failure. The material was never held to begin with.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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