It selectively lets us remember important dates like when Christmas and spring break start and the exact date report cards are sent home. On the other hand, our memory also leaves us stranded in the parking lot, and in a panic when the teacher collects the five page essay that is sitting in the printer at home. Memory loss can effect your self-esteem, social equilibrium, and intellectual stature that has been so hard to achieve. According to Rebecca Rupp, the author of Committed to Memory, individual or collected memory gives one a sense of power. Almost every organism on earth from humans to the simplest of creatures proves to have a capacity of recall.
Memory is no more than a reaction to a repeated stimulus.
In this sense animals know to avoid danger zones. John W. Donahoe and Micheal G. Wessells, authors of the book, Learning, Language and Memory, say that even protozoa, a single celled animal, have been shown to possess the simplest, most basic and ordinary kind of memory. Learning plays a part in the life of every living creature. This form of benefit could not be possible without some form of memory. Every reoccurring event has an effect on the nervous system that records and reacts to the incident.