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What is meant by term 'memory' and what models have been used to explain it's functioning?
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What is meant by term 'memory' and what models have been used to explain it's functioning? Memory research started out under the behaviorist influence and looked at the process only in the terms as input and output. With the advent of the information processing approach, models were proposed for the activity taking place in between. Memory can be characterized as any one of the following: * The mental function of retaining data, i.e. learning * The proposed storage system which holds the data * The data that is retained These are the stages of memory and each is necessary but not sufficient condition for memory to have taken place. Memory can fail at any of these stages. William James (1890) first suggested a distinction between, as he termed them, primary and secondary memories. The evidence still strongly supports two distinct stores (STM and LTM). STM has duration of less than thirty seconds and has a capacity...
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