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Definition: memory from Philip's Encyclopedia

Capacity to retain information and experience and to recall or reconstruct them in the future. Modern psychologists often divide memory into two types, short-term and long-term. An item in short-term memory lasts for about 10-15 seconds after an experience, but is lost if not used again. An item enters long-term memory if the item is of sufficient importance or if the information is required frequently.


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From Encyclopedia of Global Health
Memory is the mental capacity to store and retrieve stored experiences. It is a central part of the human capacity because it is vital to the self-identity of a person. All animals have some kind of memory, but in humans it is unique. Memory is part of the human capacity to be transcendent in thought. Humans can think of the past, the immediate present and then project thoughts into future possibilities. Memory makes it possible for planning to take place. Without memory organisms can only react to present events in their immediate environment. Memory is not just storing information for retrieval. It is also an intimate part of the learning process. Learning occurs as learners remember ideas, experiences, or other lessons. These learning experiences are not just stored for retrieval; they also transform the learner into a different person than they would be without the learned experience. For example, learning a foreign language or leaning a skill enlarges the capacity of the person, …
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From Word Origins
The Indo-European base *men-, *mon - ‘think’ has contributed an enormously wide range of words to the English lexicon, from comment to mind . One particular semantic family denotes ‘memory’, and goes back to memor ‘mindful’, a Latin descendant of *men -. From it was derived the noun memoria…
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From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Memory can be defined as the mental storage of information and the processes involved in the acquisition, retention, and retrieval of that information. There are few things as pivotal to cognition as memory. Memory serves as the center stage around which both more elementary (e.g. encoding, …
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From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Memories are stored mental representations , based on prior experiences, which can be accessed (recalled) to help us negotiate our environments. Memories are connected associatively. For example, if I see a dog on the street, this might remind me of my dog Bailey. This, in turn, might remind me that…
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From Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Recollection ; Remembrance The multifaceted process of encoding, storage, and retrieving knowledge of things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned. Memory is often measured using tasks associated with recall, retrieval, or recognition. There are a wide range of memory abilities in…
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memory Early memory research apparatus. From R...
A tradition of memory theories runs unbroken from the ancient Greeks to the present. While rarely ‘scientific’, let alone Psychological, they do all appear to be rational attempts at understanding the same thing. Two kinds of metaphor were long deployed in describing memory, namely those of…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article is a revision of the previous edition article by S. McDowell, volume 7, pp 59–63, © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Glossary Absent presence The physical, emotional, or spiritual presence or representation of absence. Memorial landscape Embedded memory in…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Memory is a process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information; the brain's ability to store and later recall previously learned facts and experiences. A normal memory allows humans to recall information such as the who, what, when, and where of everyday life and, without the ability to…
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From Epilepsy A to Z: A Concise Encyclopedia
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Disturbances of memory are among the most common complaints of people with epilepsy. In TLE, memory impairments are well documented, which is not surprising given the associated neuroanatomy including the hippocampus and mesial structures of the temporal lobe 1 . Terms used to describe memory, …
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
The big works of literary modernism explore human consciousness as a temporal field, inspired by a variety of intellectual forces that were coming to a head in the early twentieth century. Firstly, philosophy revisited Kantian time and space categories in the light of developments in depth…
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From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
How can something from the past that is no longer in existence remain present in our memory? PLATO described memory as a storage system fashioned out of wax. Expanding on this metaphor, ARISTOTLE claimed that it was made up of traces of experiences, which in some way record and represent them. …
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