Memory Debate For Psychology

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we encode an enormous amount of information
unintentionally, many other types of information we remember only with much effort, rehearsal, and attention. We can forget things because of encoding failure. Sometimes we fail to encode information, so it never entered the memory system, short-term or long-term memory. A vast amount of what we sense, we never notice or process without encoding effortful process. We also may forget things as a result of retrieval failure, sometimes information gets in our brains and even if we know it is there, we simply cannot retrieve the information. This is when you get the feeling that the information is on the tip of your tongue, but you just can not get the words out. There may also be interference information when it is similar in content.
Another type of memory failure is motivated forgetting, an example of this maybe repression, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from ...

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