Question

The retention of information about the when and where of life's happenings is called memory

Answer 1

I believe the correct answer is: episodic memory.

 

     The Episodic memory is the “type” of memory with which we recall autobiographical events (who, what, when, where, why knowledge of life's happenings). Episodic memory exhibits 9 properties that distinguish it from other “types” of memories:

1. Contain summary records of sensory-perceptual-conceptual-affective processing.

2. Retain patterns of activation/inhibition over long periods.

3. Often represented in the form of (visual) images.

4. They always have a perspective (field or observer).

5. Represent short time slices of experience.

6. They are represented on a temporal dimension roughly in order of occurrence.

7. They are subject to rapid forgetting.

8. They make autobiographical remembering specific.

9. They are recollectively experienced when accessed.