It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases (51) the decisions we make, an d the roots of our habits and skills are to be (52) in our past experiences, which are brought into the present (53) memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep (54) available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is (55) when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.
Memory (56) not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of
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B. number
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D. amount
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