MEMORY

Memory

In psychology, memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.

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memory

Noun

  1. The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
    Memory is a facility common to all animals.
  2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
    I have no memory of that event.
  3. The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
    This data passes from the CPU to the memory.
  4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
    in recent memory; in living memory
  5. which returns to its original when


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