---
title: "SSPBC2: Information Processing and Memory (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSPBC2
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSPBC2
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSPBC2: Information Processing and Memory

Analyze key concepts associated with information processing and memory.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSPBC2.a**: Describe the components of the human information processing system, include: sensory memory, attention, short term memory (working memory), encoding, long term memory, and retrieval.
- **SSPBC2.b**: Evaluate strategies that enhance memory, include: mnemonics, maintenance rehearsal, and elaborative rehearsal.
- **SSPBC2.c**: Analyze theories of forgetting, include, encoding failure, decay, proactive/retroactive interference, types of amnesia (retrograde, anterograde, source, and infantile).
- **SSPBC2.d**: Explain the phenomena involved in problem solving and decision-making, include: heuristics, algorithms, biases, expectancies, and mental set.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.