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MEMORY

MEMORY

2009

INTRODUCTION

Memory is one of the very important abilities of living animals to survive . It was conceptualized as a storehouse of ideas and to allow reviving perceptions . It also reflects a state of mind with the knowing of events for a certain length of time . Memory is generally defined as the ability to remember things , the facility to retain information , and the capacity to review or regain access to the past experience (Emilien et al , 2003 . Psychologists /philosophers have being attempting to characterize memory and describe its properties

for more than a century They applied to the scientific study of memory the same principles developed to study basic sensory and perception processing (Emilien et al , 2003 . Abandoning the traditional subjective introspection , memory is studied in a measurable way and defined objectively . For example Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables to prevent the confounding factors introduced from an individual 's previous learning history of the material to be tested (Baddeley et al , 2009 . Moreover , he quantified and used statistic tools to describe the capacity and accuracy of memory and duration of memory retention . This particular aims to analyze memory as a psychological phenomenon , to discuss its functions and peculiarities , and to explain processes that are intrinsically connected to it

MEMORY : THEORETICAL VIEW

When most people think of memory , they think of the experience of recalling a particular event from their personal past , complete with details of the sights , sounds , emotional reactions , and the surroundings associated with that event . Central to...

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