Your senses gather information almost 24/7, every time you touch something your mind takes into account how the keys on your laptop feel, or how your pen feels in between your fingers. After gathering information it’s organized into your sensory memory. The information your senses gather is held in your short term memory for up to 25 seconds. If this information isn’t transferred into long term memory it’s gone forever. You can store short term memory as images provided by visual stimuli. By reviewing words in our minds we are storing it phonetically in our minds. Psychology research indicates that we can only process seven bits of information from a visual field. Chunking is a way we manage more information in our short term memory. It’s a meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short term memory. Recoding information makes it easier to hold this information in short term memory. You can use and practice rehearsal to hold information in short term memory or transfer it into long term memory. Everyone’s used this technique when trying to remember someone’s phone number by repeating several times. Long term memory has six sections within it. When material makes its way from short term memory to long term memory it enters a store house of unlimited capacity. Going back to the computer analogy, transferring a memory from short term memory to long term is like opening up a new file in the hard-drive and saving it there. It’s filed and coded so that we can retrieve it when we want and need it. The first two sections of long term memory are explicit and implicit memory. Firstly, explicit memory, is the memories that we know we possess. I know it sounds confusing but for example recalling an actor from your favorite TV