Memory
In psychology, memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.
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... the value of PC on the address bus to send it to the memory ... The memory responds by sending the contents of that memory location on the data bus ... computer model, in which executable instructions are stored alongside ordinary data in memory, and handled identically by it) ...
... is a phrase meaning time extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition, indefinitely ancient, "ancient beyond memory or record" ... time immemorial means the same as time out of mind, "a time before legal history and beyond legal memory." In 1275, by the first Statute of Westminster, the time of memory was limited to the reign of ... was re-defined as "Time whereof the Memory of Man runneth not to the contrary." The plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned ...
... Memory management is the act of managing computer memory ... The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate portions of memory to programs at their request, and freeing it ... been devised that increase the effectiveness of memory management ...
More definitions of "memory":
- (noun): The power of retaining and recalling past experience.
Example: "He had a good memory when he was younger"
Synonyms: retention, retentiveness
- (noun): The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.
Example: "He can do it from memory"
Synonyms: remembering
- (noun): An electronic memory device.
Example: "A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
Synonyms: computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board
- (noun): Something that is remembered.
Example: "Search as he would, the memory was lost"
Famous quotes containing the word memory:
“... memory is the only way home.”
—Terry Tempest Williams, U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 10, by Mickey Pearlman (1993)
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.”
—John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869)