ABSTRACT
Psychological time consists of three major aspects: succession, duration, and temporal perspective. Succession refers to the sequential occurrence of events (i.e., changes), from which an organism may perceive successiveness and temporal order. Duration refers to several different characteristics of events. Every event persists for a certain duration, which an individual may encode and remember. Events are separated by time periods, or intervals, that may contain other events, and the length of intervals plays a role in various aspects of psychological time. A relatively unified series of events forms an episode that continues for a certain duration, which an individual may encode and remember. Temporal perspective, the third aspect of psychological time discussed here, refers to an individual's experiences and conceptions concerning past, present, and future time.
