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It's not memory that fails, but storage capacity

Robert M. Mihalek mihalek at FORMULA1.smtp.anes.upmc.edu
Fri Jul 23 10:17:45 EST 1999


In article <932636592.710664 at server.australia.net.au>
"John" <johnhkm at netsprintXXXX.net.au> writes:

> A study
> published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's
> (APA) journal Developmental Psychology demonstrates that age-related
> differences in memory are related to storage capacity and not to processing
> efficiency.


Since when is processing efficiency classified as memory?

In my opinion, memory has two basic components: storage and retrieval.
If an event is not stored, it won't become part of "memory." If said
event is stored, but then cannot be retrieved, it may as well not be
there (wherever "there" is!).


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