Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0689 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Encoding Failure
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The idea
Encoding failure is the absence of a memory because the information was never stored, not because it was lost.
In practice
Few people can draw a common coin accurately despite handling it thousands of times.
Where people slip
Exposure is not encoding. Attention is what separates the two.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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