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Term Paper Title	Memory
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Memory

Memory

     Memory is defined as the faculty by which sense impressions and
information are retained in the mind and subsequently recalled.  A person’s
capacity to remember and the total store of mentally retained impressions and
knowledge also formulate memory.  (Webster, 1992)
     "We all possess inside our heads a system for declassifying, storing and
retrieving information that exceeds the best computer capacity, flexibility, and
speed.  Yet the same system is so limited and unreliable that it cannot
consistently remember a nine-digit phone number long enough to dial it"
(Baddeley, 1993).  The examination of human behavior reveals that current
activities are inescapably linked by memories. General “competent” (1993)
behavior requires that certain past events have effect on the influences in the
present.  For example, touching a hot stove would cause a burn and therefore
memory would convey a message to not repeat again.  All of this is effected by
the development of short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM).
     Memories can be positive, like memories of girlfriends and special events,
or they can be negative, such as suppressed memories.  Sexual abuse of children
and adolescents is known to cause severe psychological and emotional damage.
Adults who were sexually abused in childhood are at a higher risk for developing
a variety of psychiatric disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders,
and mood disorders.  To understand the essential issues about traumatic memory,
the human mind’s response to a traumatic event must first be understood.  The
memory is made up of many different sections with each having different
consequences on one another.
     Can people remember what they were wearing three days ago?  Most likely no,
because the memory only holds on to what is actively remembered.   What a person
was wearing is not important so it is thrown out and forgotten.  This type of
unimportant information passes through the short-term memory.  "Short-term
memory is a system for storing information over brief intervals of time.”
(Squire, 1987)  It’s main characteristic is the holding and understanding of
limited amounts of information.  The system can grasp brief ideas which would
otherwise slip into oblivion, hold them, relate them and understand them for its
own purpose. (1987)  Another aspect of STM was introduced by William James in
1890, under the name “primary memory” (Baddeley, 1993).  Primary memory refers
to the information ...

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