Consolidation and Forgetting

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In the absense of _____ we have an issue of inaccessibility
A cue
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In the inaccessibility account of forgetting, it is difficult to dissociate _____ memories and _______ memories
Unavailable, inaccessible
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What does it mean to be measured as percent savings?
Comparison of immediate testing vs testing after a delay
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What does the Ebbinghaus curve demonstrate?
Information is rapidly forgotten at first then forgetting starts to slow down
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What is the word length effect?
More time elapses for longer words before rehearsal so longer words should be forgotten more
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In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 0-second delay?
90%
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In Brown-Peterson (1958), what was the percentage of correct recall for the 18-second delay?
7%
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Keppel and Underwood suggest that if you only consider the ______ trial then the amount of forgetting in that same time interval is quite small.
First
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What is proactive interference?
Old information interferes with learning new information
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What is retroactive interference?
New information interferes with retention of old information
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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
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In Wickers et al, when was there more proactive interference?
When words were all from the same category
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In Meeter et al, what style of questions was performance better for?
MCQ's
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What is Tulving's encoding specificity?
Retrieval is determined by the similarity between the information available in memory and information available at retrieval
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Which cue would be most effective?
A cue that applies to a unique memory
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Which is false about consolidation?
Systemic consolidation occurs quite rapidly
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In Cowan et al, 4 out of 6 patients had better memory following _________ interval
The unfilled
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What does the Ebbinghaus curve demonstrate?

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