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When cognitive psychologists talk about the process of "putting" things in memory, they often use the term:?

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I believe the answer is: Storage

Our memory is divided in to three parts: Storage, encoding, and retrieval.

Storage is the part where we store all of the new information just after we receive them. These new information later would be encoded to determine whether it's valuable enough for us to keep. If not, these information would be eliminated from the storage.
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