The Memory Debate The debate over the reliability of memory has been going on before psychotherapy even started. I would like to first began by explaining how a human being's memory works, memory is an information process, somewhat like a computer information-processing system. We use encoding, which is getting information into our brain, we retain that information like storage, and get the information back out when needed by using retrieval. Like a computer we store a great deal of information in what is called our long-term memory, the memories stored in our long-term memory are however not as literal and rather fragile. A human's long-term memory has a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse. Humans also have short-term memory, which is activated memory that only holds a few items briefly, things such as the seven digits of a phone number whil....

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