Memory Construction

Introduction:
Memory is the ability to retain and remember information. Many people consciously or unconsciously utilize skills or tools that aid to their ability of retaining information. There are three stages that are involved in memory which is sensory, short term memory, and long-term memory. In sensory memory, one shortly stores sensory information while in short term memory one can store information for a longer period of time and has a limitless capacity. On the other hand, in long-term memory information is permanently stored. Alongside memory is encoding, known as the process in which the mind stores or codes information that is helpful when retrieving information. The psychological phenomenon studied in this experiment is encoding. More specifically, how context affects encoding. In other words, context in the experiment was what we each participant were told what they were going to see. This affects encoding because participants have a background knowledge or an onset idea of what to look for or expect. Therefore, when the time comes to retrieve information not all information is able to remembered, instead only certain segments that best connects to the context. Thus, my hypothesis for this experiment is that participants in the costume ball condition are more likely to
In addition, they noticed more circus act objects in the Circus Act Condition. These results lead me to believe that there is a correlation between the condition assigned and the type of objects identified. For example, in the costume ball condition the average amount of costume ball objects identified was 2, while the average amount circus act objects identified was 0.75. This data informs me that because I told participants that they were in a costume ball condition, they specifically focused on looking for costume ball objects rather than any other type of