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

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.

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.

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