Memory is the capacity for storing and retrieving information. Every aspect of daily behaviour even ones as automatic as knowing who we are and where we live is guided by memories of past experiences. We would have no language to communicate and no personal identity. In short, without memory, we would be intellectually dead.

Human memory is not a single unitary function like the heart or the liver. It consists rather of a whole series of complex interconnected systems that serve different purposes and behave in very different ways. (Baddeley, 1982) The one function that these systems have in common is that of storing information for future use. Lets look at the memory in more detail. First of all I will look at how the memory works, then I will examine the different forms of memory, and continue on to the research that has been carried out on memory

Scientists do not yet understand many things about human memory and many of the ideas and theories about it are still quite controversial. The following discussion emphasises some of the more widely agreed upon ideas. For instance, most scientists agre

Keppel and Underwood argued that Peterson's data analysis was based on a questionable assumption about how proactive interference (the situation where previously learned material interferes with the ability to memorise new material) might have affected memory in their experiment.

Their interpretation was based on an analysis that looked for evidence of interference and failed to find it. So they concluded that this was a distinct form of memory storage which decayed from storage in a matter of 30 seconds or so.

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