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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 ....

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.... , 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 , if you look up a number in the phone book and repeat it to yourself until you dial it , that is a form of short-term memory. Short-term memory lasts roughly half a minute unl ....