Information can be retrieved from here (remembered). Information from your perception is sent to your working memory.Memory is 'The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.' ( Oxford Dictionaries)Ī very basic explanation would say that memory is a process of:.Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968).“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” (Gabriel García Márquez).'Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.' (Michel de Montaigne).'Language is memory and metaphor.' (Storm Jameson).'No memory is ever alone it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.' (Louis L'Amour).In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory.” (Sam Savage) “I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does.'Memory is man’s greatest friend and worst enemy.' (Gilbert Parker).

'It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.' (Barbara Kingsolver).'Memory is deceptive because it is coloured by today’s events.' (Albert Einstein).“Memory is imagination in reverse.” (Stephen Evans).Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands and, as a part of the human race, he creates.” (William Morris) “Memory and imagination help as he works.'We can invent only with memory.' (Alphonse Karr).I know you'll find these TOK Memory notes helpful, but there is an even better version available to our supporting members here (the full Memory notes) -along with some very helpful TOK videos and other sources for your TOK essay and exhibition.

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