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  2. What Is Memory? - Verywell Mind

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    Memory refers to the psychological processes of acquiring, storing, retaining, and later retrieving information. Memory involves three major processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval.

  3. Definition. Memory is referred to as the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information in psychology. We can form relationships, adjust to new circumstances, learn from experience, and make sense of the world around us thanks to this intricate system.

  4. Memory is the term given to the structures and processes involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information. Memory is essential to all our lives. Without a memory of the past, we cannot operate in the present or think about the future.

  5. Memory | Psychology Today

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    Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that people consciously call to mind as well as ingrained knowledge that surface without effort or even awareness. It is both a short-term...

  6. Memory | Definition, Retrieval, & Forgetting | Britannica

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    Memory is the encoding, storage, and retrieval in the human mind of past experiences. The basic pattern of remembering involves attention to an event followed by representation of that event in the brain.

  7. APA Dictionary of Psychology

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    the ability to retain information or a representation of past experience, based on the mental processes of learning or encoding, retention across some interval of time, and retrieval or reactivation of the memory.

  8. How Memory Works - Psychology Today

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    Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent...

  9. Different Types of Memory and the Function of Each - Verywell...

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    Memory is the ability to store and retrieve information when people need it. The four general types of memories are sensory memory, short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory. Long-term memory can be further categorized as either implicit (unconscious) or explicit (conscious).

  10. Memory | SpringerLink

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    Memory is the human brain’s reflection on past experiences. Alternatively, according to information processing theory, memory is the input, encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. The memory process includes three basic steps: memorization; retention; and recall or recognition. Memorization is the process of acquiring knowledge and ...

  11. Memory: An Extended Definition - Frontiers

    www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02523

    In the extended definition, memory is the capacity to store and retrieve information. Does this new definition of memory mean that everything is now a form of memory? We stress that memory still requires incorporation, that is, in corpore.