Explicit memory

Introduction: Memories are what make us Memory: Information that is stored and has stayed over a period of time Just regular people have the ability to remember amazing things Some could remember parts of images shown 17 years earlier Information Processing Model: takes after a computer ? 3 parts Encoding: How information gets into our brain Storage: How we hold onto the information or store it like a hard drive Retrieval: How we get the information back from our brain like in computer files Connectionism: Another theory to how our memories work, which states that memories are made of interconnected neural networks, and memories are made of three stages Brief sensory memory like a quick image shown and then fading away Short-Term memory: where it?s encoded through rehearsal