Memory Debate For Psychology

Part I of Essay
The debate over the reliability of memory has been going on before psychotherapy even started. I would like to first began by explaining how a human being's memory works, memory is an information process, somewhat like a computer information-processing system. We use enco ....

Part II of Essay
.... without awareness, and without interfering with our thinking about other things. Encoding can also be effortful processing; although we encode an enormous amount of information unintentionally, many other types of information we remember only with much effort, rehearsal, and attention. We can forget things because of encoding failure. Sometimes we fail to encode information, so it never entered the memory system, short-term or long-term memory. A vast amount of what we sense, we never notice or process without encoding effortful process. ....