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The process of remembering

When you ‘record’ a memory, and then bring it back, your brain

goes through a 4-step process:

1. Receive

▪ You bring the information into your brain through your one or more of your senses.

2. Encode

▪ Your brain changes this information into something that can be stored – a bit like

changing words we hear into writing. It is then held in your working memory.

3. Store

▪ You then pass the information into your long-term memory storage.

4. Retrieve

▪ When you remember something, you pull the information back out of your long-term
memory – like taking old photographs out of the loft!

Memory problems can be caused by something going wrong at

any of these stages.

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