Part 1 of Essay
is the vital tool in learning and thinking . We all use in our everyday lives. Think about the first time you ever tied your shoe laces or rode a bike; those are all forms of , long term or short. If you do not remember anything from the past , you would never learn; thus unable to process. Without memory you would simp ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... are sensory memory , short-term , and long-term memory. Sensory memory is the shortest and less extensive of the others. It can hold memory for only an instance (Memory p. 32). Suppose you see a tree , the image of the tree is briefly held by the sensory memory and quickly disappears unless you transfer it to your short-term memory (Rhodes p. 130). The next level is called short-term memory. The image or fact can be held as long as the brain is actively thinking about it (Loftus p. 392). For example , ....