Question

Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ____ in LTM.

a. long-term potentiation
b. retrieval cues
c. elaborative rehearsal
d. mass practice

Answer 1

Answer: b. Retrieval cues

Explanation: while memories have a great way of obtaining and retaining information, stored information is not always accessible on cue even though they are not lost in the brain. In cases such as these, retrieval cues play a role in remembrance. When we make new memories, we include certain information about the situation that has occurred to act as triggers to access that memory. Such triggers or prompts or hints are retrieval cues and they help us remember information that has been stored in memory more easily and they need not have to be in the form of words or phrases but can also be a particular scent, a location, or even a sound.

Answer 2

b. retrieval cues

Step-by-step explanation:

are the stimuli that help in bringing back the memory.They help tap into memories that were stored into long term and assist into bringing them to your conscious awareness.