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Discuss the need for an explanation of human memory, which proposes that memory is a set of stages, rather than a single process.

Date Submitted: 04/04/2003 05:18:53
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Discuss the need for an explanation of human memory, which proposes that memory is a set of stages, rather than a single process. This essay is going to discuss the need for an explanation of human memory, which proposes that memory is a set of stages rather than a single process. Flanagan (1997) defines memory as " the mental function of retaining data, the storage system holding the data, and the data which is retained." It is …

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…all the more understandable and the theories of memory put together a "story" of how the memory process may work. However, most if not all theories or models describe rather than explain the memory process (providing a guideline) therefore the empirical evidence is really the only key in explaining why memory is a set of stages rather than a single process and it is from these that the " need " is derived. Word count: 1857 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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