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Memory is defined as the faculty by

which sense impressions and information are

retained in the mind and subsequently recalled. A

person's capacity to remember and the total store

of mentally retained impressions and knowledge

also formulate memory. (Webster, 1992) "We all

possess inside our heads a system for

declassifying, storing and retrieving information

that exceeds the best computer capacity,

flexibility, and speed. Yet the same system is so

limited and unreliable that it cannot consistently

remember a nine-digit phone number long enough

to dial it" (Baddeley, 1993). The examination of

human behavior reveals that current activities are

inescapably linked by memories. General

"competent" (1993) behavior requires that certain

past events have effect on the influences in the

present. For example, touching a hot stove would

cause a burn and therefore memory would convey

a message to not repeat again. All of this is......

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