e most important is Encoding, because you must pay attention to the information that you want to place into your memory. It is the starting point, although there are three levels known within this beginning step. Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart proposed three levels for encoding incoming information. “They suggested that whether we remember information for a few seconds or a lifetime depends on how deeply we process the information” (Internet). The first level is classified as Structural, because information is stored on visual codes. In other words, what information “looks” like or what is its physical structure. An example of that can be a picture of a friend at Disneyland, can help someone remember his or her experience at Disneyland. The second level is classified as Phonemic, because information “is stored as acoustic codes” (Sternberg 275). This is basically, remembering information based on how it sounds, such as remembering your prom when you hear a song that was played that night. Finally, the last level would be Semantic, because information is stored based on semantic codes (i.e. what it means). This may be the most complicated one, but most information “appears to be stored based on semantic codes” (Conklin). This basically means that things are remembered based on the meaning of the words. For example, a person can remember what the word “nib licks” means by knowing its definition, or the meaning of it in simpler words (i.e. gold iron with heavy head). Which of the three is the best way to remember things then? That would be to use the combination of two of any of the three levels. If you can see an image, and hear a sound that will remind you of it, then you are able to keep it in memory for longer periods of time. Now that we know how to understand what we want to remember, we need to know how we keep it stored in our minds.Storing information is essential i...
