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    Memory: Memory Is The Ability To Take in Information, Store It, and Recall It at A Later Time

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    Memory is the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information over time. It is essential for human survival and development, allowing us to learn, develop relationships and identity. There are three types of memory: sensory memory briefly stores sensory information, short-term memory retains information for seconds to minutes, and long-term memory stores information for the life of an individual. Memories are formed through a three step process - encoding, storing, and retrieval.

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    Memory is the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information over time. It is essential for human survival and development, allowing us to learn, develop relationships and identity. There are three types of memory: sensory memory briefly stores sensory information, short-term memory retains information for seconds to minutes, and long-term memory stores information for the life of an individual. Memories are formed through a three step process - encoding, storing, and retrieval.

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    Memory is the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information over time. It is essential for human survival and development, allowing us to learn, develop relationships and identity. There are three types of memory: sensory memory briefly stores sensory information, short-term memory retains information for seconds to minutes, and long-term memory stores information for the life of an individual. Memories are formed through a three step process - encoding, storing, and retrieval.

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    MEMORY

    Memory is the ability to take in information, store it, and recall it at a later time.
    OR we can say that
    Memory is the ability of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and
    retrieved when needed.

    Memory is very important for survival and development of human beings. If we


    could not remember past events, we could not learn or develop language,
    relationships, or personal identity. Our lives have been similar to that of some
    animal. Memory has given human beings a great power to influence over the world.
    Memory makes human beings superior to other animals and organisms.

    How Are Memories Formed/ Process of Memory?

    There a 3 steps of memory process:

    1. Encoding (converting information received by the brain into something


    understandable)
    2. Storing (storing that information in brain)
    3. Retrieval (recalling or remembering back the information stored in brain)

    In order to form new memories, information must be changed into a usable form,
    which occurs through the process known as encoding. Once information has been
    successfully encoded, it must be stored in memory for later use. Much of this stored
    memory lies outside of our awareness most of the time, except when we actually need
    to use it. The retrieval process allows us to bring stored memories into conscious
    awareness.

    Types OF MEMORY
    According to Atkinson and Shriffin (Psychologists), the human memory consists of 3
    stypes are:
    1. SENSORY MEMORY
    Sensory memory holds sensory information less than one second after an item
    is perceived. The ability to look at an item and remember what it looked like
    with just a split second of observation, or memorization, is the example of
    sensory memory.
    The information received by our sense organs are remembered for very short
    duration of time.
    Sensory memory is of 3 types
    a. Iconic memory: the memory of visual images that we see and forget
    within seconds.
    b. Echoic memory: the memory of sound that we see and forget within
    seconds
    c. Haptic Memory: the memory of touch that we feel and forget within
    seconds
    Sensory memory helps us to perceive and remember the things in our environment.

    2. SHORT TERM MEMORY


    Short-term memory is also known as working memory. Short-term
    memory allows recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without
    rehearsal. Its capacity is also very limited:
     Modern EXPERIMENTS SHOW THAT THE CAPACITY OF short-term
    memory are lower, that is about 4–5 items only can be remembered.
    However, memory capacity can be increased through a process called chunking
    (breaking information into small parts) For example, in recalling a ten-
    digit telephone number, a person could chunk the digits into three groups: first, the
    area code (such as 123), then a three-digit chunk (456) and lastly a four-digit chunk
    (7890). This method of remembering telephone numbers is far more effective than
    attempting to remember a group of 10 digits; this is because we are able to chunk the
    information into meaningful groups of numbers.
    Another example is remembering a vehicle number that is passing on the road. You
    may be able to remember it for some time but finally forget it.
    Information in short term memory is remembered only for a short duration.

    3. LONG TERM MEMORY


    Long-term memory can store much larger quantities of information for almost
    unlimited duration (sometimes a whole life time of a person). Its capacity is
    immeasurable.

    For example, given a random seven-digit number we may remember it for


    only a few seconds before forgetting, If it was stored in our short-term
    memory.
    On the other hand, we can remember telephone numbers for many years
    through repetition; this information is said to be stored in long-term memory.

    Long-term memory refers to the continuing storage of information.

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