Habits of Mind such as Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations, Gathering Data
through all Senses and Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
implicitly include the concept of sensory perception and memory. According to
Schneider & Bjorklund (1998) the sensory register is the originating storage compartment
of the brain. This compartment receives information through the five senses and stores
this information for less than a second. If we attend to the information, it moves to
subsequent storage compartments in the brain. Baddeley (1986) has coined the term
ëworking memoryí or more commonly termed ëshort-term memoryí, a temporary storage