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Handout Master 6.3
Fill-in-the-Blanks
1. 1.___Memory_________ is an active system that receives information from the senses,
organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.
2. .__Encoding____________ is the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory
information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage
systems.
3. ____Storage_____ is the process of holding onto information for some period of time.
4. .___Retrieval__ is getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used by the
individual
5. The very first stage of memory is called ___sensory_memory___, and it is the point at which
6.
7. The rare ability to access a visual memory for 30 seconds or more is called 8. The __echoic_memory_________ is a brief memory of something a person has just heard.
9. The memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used and is