To understand what memory is you can start by understanding its opposite, the condition called amnesia. Amnesia is the inability and inability to remember information previously stored in memory (Evans, 1979). If this is the case, then memory must be the ability to process information in order to collect it while the data remains retained (Maltin, 2005). Psychologists ideally believe that memory is made up of three aspects, these basic stages work together when an event is remembered. These phases we are outlining are the memory encoding, storage, and retrieval phases (Ghoneim, 2001). The three phases work in turn to gather information and situate it together to create the memorization process (Denes & Pizzamiglio, 1999). An interesting memory model created by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) known as the multi-store model which is also known as the dual-process model, involves three types of memory stores identified as; sensory memory, short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM) if information is repeated as it is believed to be necessary for retention. A model that particularly supports the importance of repetition is that of the psychologist Craik and Lockhart (1972). Their model of memory known as the Levels of Processing model explains that, in contrast to the multi-store model, this model involves an unstructured approach. This idea was born as a result of the criticisms leveled at the multistore model. The idea of Craik and Lockhart's (1972) model is basically that memory is the occurrence and result of one's own information process. Instead of focusing on stores or structures like LTM and STM, the concentration in this theory is given more to t...... middle of paper... a kind of semantic processing, that's why more processing was done deep also required. Different groups of participants were asked to look at an auditory list of 24 words and respond by performing an orienting task that consisted of the two levels of information processing. Overall, recall was considerably higher for semantically analyzed words, as opposed to orthographic words. This also supported Craik and Lockharts' (1972) idea as the results showed that a deeper level of processing was exhibited when words were processed semantically (Anderson, 2013). The hypothesis from the 'Level of Processing' research at the University of Bedfordshire is that 'The number of words remembered will increase with deeper levels of processing' as the prediction is that recall will be facilitated when levels of processing are greater and a semantic level.
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