Understanding Memory

Human memory involves the ability to both preserve and ______ information.

• Forget

• Retrieve

• Store

• Encode

What is the role of encoding in memory formation?

• To store information

• To change information into a usable form

• To retrieve information

• To forget information.

What is memory according to psychologists?

• A process of forgetting

• A psychological process of acquiring, storing, retaining, and retrieving information

• A method of ignoring past events

• A way to misremember things.

What is the importance of understanding memory?

• To ignore past events

• To offer insights into making memory stronger

• To misremember things

• To forget important events.

Strengthening the connections between synapses helps to ______.

• Forget information

• Commit information to memory

• Decrease memory retention

• Increase neuron loss.

What helps improve the ability to remember information?

• Ignoring

• Reviewing and rehearsing

• Forgetting

• Misplacing

The ability to access and retrieve information from long-term memory allows us to ______.

• make decisions

• interact with others

• solve problems

• all of the above

Smelling a particular scent can bring forth a rush of vivid memories connected to ______.

• people

• events

• both A and B

• neither A nor B

The stage model of memory outlines three separate stages or types of memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, and ______.

• working memory

• long-term memory

• emotional memory

• procedural memory

Who initially proposed the stage model of memory in 1968?

• Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget