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A pupil takes new information into the memory system. That first stage is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Retaining information after it has been taken in is the stage called:Read the answer and worked solution →Encoding words along with their meaning is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Craik and Tulving found that words are best remembered when encoded:Read the answer and worked solution →The Atkinson-Shiffrin model says information passes through stages numbering:Read the answer and worked solution →Storage of brief sights, sounds and tastes lasting only seconds is:Read the answer and worked solution →The temporary system that processes incoming sensory memory is:Read the answer and worked solution →Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it moves it along through:Read the answer and worked solution →George Miller found that short-term memory capacity is about seven plus or minus:Read the answer and worked solution →The storage capacity of long-term memory is believed to be:Read the answer and worked solution →Long-term memory divides into implicit memory and memory that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Your memory of your last birthday party is an example of memory that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Knowing how to ride a bicycle without being able to describe it is memory that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Exposure to one stimulus changing the response to a later one is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Recall, recognition and relearning are the three ways of doing what with a memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Learning Spanish again years later, more quickly than the first time, demonstrates:Read the answer and worked solution →The brain structure linked to declarative, episodic and recognition memory is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A patient loses stored long-term memories after a head injury. The condition is:Read the answer and worked solution →A blow to the head leaving someone unable to form new memories causes amnesia that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Loss of memory for events that happened before the injury is amnesia that is:Read the answer and worked solution →The psychologist who charted how quickly new information is forgotten, in 1885, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Grouping a long number into a few manageable blocks is a strategy called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the study strategiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the memory stagesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the memory gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the memory wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Explicit or implicitRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the memory wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Memory bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A pupil takes new information into the memory system. That first stage is called:

  1. Encoding
  2. Enabling
  3. Enclosing
  4. Endorsing
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Correct answer: A. Encoding

1. Three functions make up memory: input, retention and retrieval. 2. This one describes getting the information in. 3. That stage is encoding. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory._

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Retaining information after it has been taken in is the stage called:

  1. Sketching
  2. Storage
  3. Sourcing
  4. Sampling
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Correct answer: B. Storage

1. Encoding puts the information into the system. 2. Something must then keep it there. 3. That stage is storage. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory._

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Encoding words along with their meaning is described as:

  1. Semantic
  2. Systemic
  3. Symbolic
  4. Synthetic
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Correct answer: A. Semantic

1. Images are handled by visual encoding. 2. Sounds are handled by acoustic encoding. 3. Meaning is handled by semantic encoding. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory._

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