Memory Definition | What is Memory? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
[n] the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
[n] the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
[n] something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"
[n] the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
Synonyms
computer memory, computer storage, memory board, remembering, retention, retentiveness, storage, store
See Also...
anamnesis, association, basic cognitive process, cognitive psychology, computer, computer hardware, computing device, computing machine, confabulation, connection, connexion, data processor, electronic computer, engram, faculty, fixed storage, hardware, identification, immediate memory, information processing system, internal representation, long-term memory, LTM, memory device, memory trace, mental faculty, mental representation, module, nonvolatile storage, non-volatile storage, read-only memory, read-only storage, real storage, recall, recognition, recollection, register, remembrance, reminiscence, representation, retrieval, retrospection, ROM, scratchpad, screen memory, short-term memory, STM, storage device, virtual memory, virtual storage, volatile storage, working memory
Related Terms
anamnesis, anniversaries, archetypal pattern, archetype, awareness, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, cognizance, commemoration, consciousness, disk memory, dressing ship, drum memory, engram, fanfare, fanfaronade, father image, festivity, flourish of t
Comments
|
|
|