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6. What does it mean to be measured as percent savings?
- Comparison of rate of forgetting
- Comparison of two different participants' scores
- Comparison of immediate testing vs testing after a delay
- Comparison of recall of nonsense or real syllables
7. What is Tulving's encoding specificity?
- Retrieval is determined by the similarity between the information not available in memory and the information available at retrieval
- Retrieval is determined by the similarity between the information available in memory and information available at retrieval
- Retrieval is determined by the difference between the information available in memory and information available at retrieval
- Retrieval is determined by the difference between the information available in memory and the information not available at retrieval
8. In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 0-second delay?
9. What does the Ebbinghaus curve demonstrate?
- Information is rapidly forgotten at first then forgetting stops abruptly
- Information is slowly forgotten at first then forgetting stops abruptly
- Information is rapidly forgotten at first then forgetting starts to slow down
- Information is slowly forgotten at first then forgetting speeds up
10. In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 18-second delay?
11. Which is not true of forgetting?
- It is a failure to encode
- It could be recalled at an earlier occasion
- The memory could be remembered in the future
- Need to be able to forget sometimes
12. In the inaccessibility account of forgetting, it is difficult to dissociate _____ memories and _______ memories
- Available, inaccessible
- Available, accessible
- Unavailable, inaccessible
- Unavailable, accessible
13. What is retroactive interference?
- Old information interferes with retention of old information
- New information interferes with retention of old information
- New information interferes with learning new information
- Old information interferes with learning new information
14. What is proactive interference?
- New information interferes with learning new information
- Old information interferes with learning new information
- New information interferes with retention of old information
- Old information interferes with retention of old information
15. In Wickers et al, when was there more proactive interference?
- When words were presented after a delay
- When words were all from the same category
- When words were presented at the same time
- When words were from different categories
16. In Waugh and Norman's (1965) study, with a slow rate decay should have more of an effect but...
- Performance was the same with each rate
- Performance was better with the slow rate
- Performance was better with the fast rate
17. In Cowan et al, 4 out of 6 patients had better memory following _________ interval
- The extra
- The filled
- The unfilled
- No
18. In the absense of _____ we have an issue of inaccessibility
- A cue
- Forgetting
- A memory
- Encoding
19. What is the word length effect?
- Less time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgott
- More time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgotten more
- More time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so shorter words should be forgotten more
- Less time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgotten more
20. In Meeter et al, what style of questions was performance better for?
- Spoken
- MCQ's
- Free recall
- Essay