You enter a restaurant for the first time and notice the arrangement of the tables, the friendliness of the waitstaff, and the general ambience of the place. As you take in the information around you, you are engaging in the first step of the memory process known as:

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Encoding is the first step in the memory process, involving the initial learning of information by converting sensory input into a form that is able to be processed and stored in the brain.

You Enter a Restaurant for the First Time and Notice