21. People have to use information to make it stick

Question	Answer
How do people move things from working memory into long-term memory?	Repeat it a lot, or connect it to something they already know.
___ billion neurons in the brain that store information.	10.
_______ in the brain fire every time we repeat a word, phrase, song, or phone number we are trying to memorize.	Neurons.
When two neurons are activated, the connections will be strengthened. That’s why repeating information enough times, the neurons form a _________.	Firing trace.
What do people do use to store information in long-term memory and to retrieve it?	Schemata. Image: Img 0722 (binary/octet-stream)

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