Specialized English for Counseling and Psychotherapy

What is the long-term memory?

• It is the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at particular times and places.

• The process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory

• Refers to the transfer of information from short-term memory into long-term storage in order to create enduring memories.

• The process of maintaining information in memory over time.

Choose the correct answer: “The process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory”.

• Storage

• Encoding

• Memory

• Recall

What is Storage?

• The process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory

• It is the memory of how to perform certain actions, such as walking, talking, and riding a bike. Procedural memories are performed without conscious thought

• The forgetting curve is a graph that shows how quickly we forget information over time.

• The process of maintaining information in memory over time.

What is recall?

• The process of retrieving information from long-term memory

• The process of identifying a stimulus as having been previously encountered

• The process of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory

• The process of forgetting information

What is visual encoding?

• The process of converting sensory information from the eyes into a meaningful representation

• The process of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory

• The process of retrieving information from long-term memory

• The process of forgetting information

Which of the following is NOT a stage of the memory system?

• Encoding

• Storage

• Retrieval

• Processing

What is semantic encoding?

• The process of converting sensory information into a meaningful representation

• The process of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory

• The process of retrieving information from long-term memory

• The process of forgetting information

Which of the following factors can influence acoustic encoding?

• The repetition of the information

• The rhythm of the information

• The pitch of the information

• All of the above

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

• 7 items, plus or minus 2

• Unlimited

• Depends on the individual

• All of the above

Complete the following sentence: “.........is the final step in the long-term memory process. It is influenced by a number of factors, including the type of information, the context in which it was encoded, and the presence of cues”.

• Retrieval

• Consolidation

• Blurred memory

• Procedural memory