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Human Memory The human memory is a very important skill that all humans have and need. Without the memory we wouldn't be able to remember things that we have done or able to hold specific information. Philosophers have been interested in memory for over 2,000 years, but it is only in the last 50 years that psychologists have made a systematic study of the topic. Memory is studied within the branch of Psychology known as cognitive psychology, where you can find the subjects known as Thinking, perception, attention and memory. This is a research field which focuses on the mental process humans use to acquire, store, retrieve and use their knowledge about the world. The studies of memory first came about when Ebbinghaus (1885) used nonsense syllables and discovered two systems/stores. There was also wm James (1890) who developed primary and secondary memory. There are several theories of memory are based...

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