stores information for immediate use or manipulation, which is aided through hooking onto previously archived items already present in the long-term memory of an individual.

History

Encoding is still relatively new and unexplored but the origins of encoding date back to age-old philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato. A major figure in the history of encoding is Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909). Ebbinghaus was a pioneer

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