Question

Shayla is able to retain the vocabulary she learned in her first semester Spanish class after the class has ended. The main memory process that accounts for the fact that Shayla can hold information in her memory for extended periods of time is __________.a. storage.

b. chunking.
c. retrieval.
d. encoding.

Answer 1

a. storage is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Memory is a process to store, encode and remember the information.

There are three processes that are included in the human memory that are

• Encoding: includes receiving the information, processing and combining the information.

• Storage: is a process of storing the new information in the memory and this information is modified in the brain region for simpler and easy storage.

• recall: It includes recalling and remembering the information that is stored in the long term memory