Memory

u  Memory is an organism’s ability to store retain and recall information and experiences.

u  Memory is our ability to encode store retail and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain.

MATLIN (2005)

“Memory is the process of maintaining information over time”

u  Memory is essential to all our lives without a memory of the past we cannot operate in the present or think about the future.

u  Without memory we could not learn anything.

u  Memory is involved in processing   vast amounts of information .This information takes many different from: images ,sound or meaning.

Ø Two types of memory

              1.     Short-term memory

u  The ability to look at items for a second and then remember what it looked like .

u  It is also called working memory (STM).It is recall without practicing something that happened recently .

    2..     LONG TERM MEMORY

u  Long term memory (LTM) is the ability to store more information long period of time like phone no. names and address from when we were kids.

u  Long-term memory can store much larger quantities of information for unlimited duration (some time a whole life of information)