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Essay Archive - Memory
Memory
Memory is defined as the faculty by which sense impressions and
information are retained in the mind and subsequently recalled. A person’s
capacity to remember and the total store of mentally retained impressions and
knowledge also formulate memory. (Webster, 1992)
"We all possess inside our heads a system for declassifying, storing and
retrieving information that exceeds the best computer capacity, flexibility, and
speed. Yet the same system is so limited and unreliable that it cannot
consistently remember a nine-digit phone number long enough to dial it"
(Baddeley, 1993). The examination of human behav....
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