Memory - Processes :Encoding, storage and retrieval

Question 1

What is Encoding?

Answer 1

Changing information so that it can be stored in the brain

Question 2

What is Retrieval?

Answer 2

The process of accessing information that has been stored in your brain and being able to use it

Question 3

What is storage?

Answer 3

The process of accessing information that has been stored in your brain and being able to use it

Question 4

What are the three different types of retrieval?

Answer 4

1. Recognition relates to identifying something previously learned from a number of options
2. Cued recall relates to being given a clue to help you remember.
3. Free recall is when you remember something without any clue.

Question 5

Visual encoding

Answer 5

How something looks.
For example, ‘seeing’ your house in your mind and counting the number of windows uses visual encoding.

Question 6

Acoustic encoding

Answer 6

How something sounds.
For example, you can hear the words and music if you think about your favourite song in your head.

Question 7

Semantic encoding

Answer 7

The meaning of something.
For example, if you know what an elephant is and can use ‘elephant’ in a sentence, you are encoding the word by its meaning.

Question 8

Other encoding

Answer 8

Tactile encoding is memory of what things feel like to touch and olfactory encoding is memory for smells.