During the bank robbery, Edna kept reminding herself that she needed to try to remember what the two criminals looked like. This process of memory was__________
A) storage.
B) consolidation.
C) encoding.
D) retrieval.

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Encoding is the process of transforming information into a form that can be stored and retrieved later. In this scenario, Edna is actively paying attention to the appearance of the bank robbers in order to encode their visual features into her memory. Storage refers to the retention of encoded information over time, consolidation refers to the process of stabilizing and integrating memories over time, and retrieval refers to the process of accessing stored information at a later time. While all of these processes are involved in memory, the best choice for the given scenario is encoding.

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