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Getting information into the memory system is the process called:Read the answer and worked solution →Getting information out of memory and back into awareness is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Holding onto information once it has been encoded is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The three stages a memory passes through on the way to storage are sensory memory, long-term memory and:Read the answer and worked solution →Loss of long-term memory caused by disease or trauma is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Organising information into manageable bits to remember it better is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The process that moves information from short-term memory into long-term memory is:Read the answer and worked solution →Short-term memory takes information from sensory memory and sometimes connects it to something in:Read the answer and worked solution →Baddeley and Hitch proposed in 1974 that short-term memory has different forms, in a model called:Read the answer and worked solution →Memories learned outside awareness that cannot be consciously recalled are:Read the answer and worked solution →The distinction between explicit and implicit memory matters clinically because:Read the answer and worked solution →Implicit memory is demonstrated not by conscious recall but by:Read the answer and worked solution →In memory research, participants may be given an unexpected task of recall or:Read the answer and worked solution →Amnesia is specifically the loss of which kind of memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Ordering the three memory functions correctly gives:Read the answer and worked solution →Ordering the three memory stages by how long information is held gives:Read the answer and worked solution →The working memory model differs from the simple short-term store because it holds that short-term memory:Read the answer and worked solution →Follow a memory through its stagesRead the answer and worked solution →Match each memory termRead the answer and worked solution →Explicit or implicit memory?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: memoryRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the memory rulesRead the answer and worked solution →The three basic functions of memory are encoding, storage and:Read the answer and worked solution →Remembering what you ate for lunch without trying is an example of:Read the answer and worked solution →The encoding of words and their meaning is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Craik and Tulving found verbal information is best remembered when encoded:Read the answer and worked solution →Better memory for information that relates to oneself is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Atkinson and Shiffrin's 1968 model says memory passes through sensory memory, short-term memory and:Read the answer and worked solution →In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, the part that controls information flow is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Short-term memory storage lasts about:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Getting information into the memory system is the process called:

  1. Encoding
  2. Storage
  3. Retrieval
  4. Rehearsal
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Correct answer: A. Encoding

1. Memory is described as three functions performed in order. 2. We get information into our brains through a process called encoding. 3. Encoding is the input of information into the memory system. 4. Storage and retrieval are the second and third functions. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Memory', sections 8.1-8.4_

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Getting information out of memory and back into awareness is called:

  1. Retrieval
  2. Encoding
  3. Storage
  4. Chunking
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Correct answer: A. Retrieval

1. The three memory functions run input, hold, output. 2. Retrieval is getting the information out of memory and back into awareness. 3. It is the third function of the three. 4. Encoding is the first and storage the second. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Memory', sections 8.1-8.4_

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Holding onto information once it has been encoded is called:

  1. Recall
  2. Storage
  3. Encoding
  4. Retrieval
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Correct answer: B. Storage

1. Something must happen between putting information in and getting it out. 2. Once the information has been encoded, we have to somehow retain it. 3. That retaining is storage, the second memory function. 4. Retrieval only becomes possible because storage happened first. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Memory', sections 8.1-8.4_

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