... a fundamental component of daily life. We rely on it so heavily, that it is not a stretch to say that life without memory would be close to impossible. Baddeley explains that with no memory we as individuals would be vegetables, and classifies this as being intellectually dead. Baddeley (1982, 11) states that individuals do not have a memory but have many memories. Therefore someone who has lost their memory is in fact someone who has a malfunction in one or more of these complex memory systems. Baddeley (1982) explains that had all of these systems been lost the outcome of the person could result in unconsciousness or possible death. Memory is not a single, simple function. As Baddely explains it is an extraordinarily complex system of diverse components and processes. There are at least three, and very likely more, memory processes. The most important and best documented by scientific ...

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