Memory is the capacity to store and retrieve information. In 1885 Herman Ebbinghaus a German psychologist, outlined a series of such extraordinary to motivate his new research with memory stating that when a person crams for a test they are more then likely not going to remember very much in a few days. Ebbinghaus’s data added up to a convincing argument in favor of experimental exploration of memory. What was needed was a method, and …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…clap your hands you are using things that at the time you had to memorize but now do not think about. The examples given of both implicit and explicit memories all involved the remembering of facts and events, which is called declarative memory. Procedural memory refers to the way you remember how things get done. It is used to keep and service perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills often concern themselves with the time of learning.