Your mother has called you on your cell phone and asked you to pick up a few items at the grocery store on your way home. As you heard your mother state each item, which process transferred this information from your sensory memory to your short-term memory so you could jot each grocery item down?

Encoding

Explanation:

Encoding is the initial learning of information. Encoding is the process of passing new information coming from sensory input  into our brain so that it can be easily retrievable. In a nutshell, it is the sum total of the processes by which external information such as the list of items your mother asked you to pick up at the grocery store to be converted into a manner that can be stored within the brain and recalled later from long-term memory.

Encoding has to do with transferring external stimuli into short term and subsequently long-term memory.

answer: the correct answer is 1.

explanation: there are various process in which a radioactive nuclei decays:

1) alpha decay: in this process, a heavier nuclei decays into lighter nuclei by releasing alpha particle. the mass number is reduced by 4 units.

2) electron capture: in this decay process, a parent nuclei absorbs an electron and gets converted into a neutron. simply, a proton and an electron combines together to form a neutron. mass number does not change in this process.

3) gamma ray emission: it is a decay process in which an unstable nuclei gives excess energy by a spontaneous electromagnetic process. this decay releases . this process does not change the mass number.

4) positron emission: it is a type of decay process, in which a proton gets converted to neutron and an electron neutrino. this is also known as -decay. in this the mass number remains same.

from the above information, we see that only alpha-decay is producing a change in the mass number of the nucleus.

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