Memory Psychology

I read the article Memory Psychology by Saul McLeod. This article is reliable because it is a very recent article and therefore have more recent facts, it was published in 2007. http://www.simplypsychology.org/memory.html

• Memory is the term given to the process involved in the storage and retrieval of information in the brain.
• Memory is very important without memory of the past it would be impossible to operate in the present or think about the future.
• Without memory we could not learn anything new.
• When new information comes into our memory system it had to be changed into a form that the system can change so it can be stored.
• There are three main ways memory can be changed or encoded (Visual, Acoustic, Semantic)
• If we can’t remember something it may be because we are unable to retrieve it.
• A large part of the research on memory is based on experiments done in laboratories.