How do educational psychologists define "memory"?

How do educational psychologists define "memory"?

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Memory is the storage of information in the brain--or in the mind as some would say--that's there for retrieval later on. We can have memory that goes far back to something we haven't remembered in a long time; yet we rehearsed it, or it was so meaningful that it became a long-term memory for us and we were able to organize it and store it long-term.Also we can hold things in memory by practicing them. For example, if someone gives you a phone number and you're on your cell phone and maybe you're driving and all you can do is repeat it over and over to yourself. By repeating it over and over, you're rehearsing it and while you're rehearsing it, you're holding it in what we call short-term memory.