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Memory is the ability to remember past events, images, ideas, or previously learned information or skills. Memory is also the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information. There are three key processes to memory: encodi ....

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.... for thirty seconds. A person may want to rememjber certain details of information. Repeatedly verbalizing and thinking about it, will keep that information in memory. Information contained in short-term memory is available for less than twenty and no more than thirty seconds. It must be transferred to long-term memory, or it will be lost. Long term-memory is the storage system tha keeps a permanent record of information. Information such as names, dates, places, events, and smells can be found in long-term memory. Information that is important is immediatly stored inot long-term memory. Birthday's, your telephone number is maintained i ....