Sensory Memory
Cognitive Learning

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve: How Memory Fades Over Time

Memory is a process of an active system that consists of three stages. The first is encoding, where the information is given by the sensory processes; the second process is storage, where the information is held for some period of time. The third and last process is retrieval, where the information is used in a

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Cognitive Learning

Information Processing Theory in Psychology

Have you ever gone into a room and then completely forgotten the reason why? Or read a whole page in a textbook, then realised you don’t remember much of anything. Each of these examples illustrates a general phenomenon about the human mind: information does not become memory automatically; it must be taken in, selected, processed,

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