This document discusses the history and concepts of psychology and memory. It outlines some of the key figures who contributed to the fields such as Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Ebbinghaus, Bartlett, Lashley, Tulving, Bergson and their ideas around encoding, retention, retrieval, perception, consciousness, and duration as it relates to memory. It also references works by artists Christian Boltanski and Gerhard Richter that explore themes of memory.