Exam 25: Encoding: Getting Information In

When we fall in love,we tend to overestimate how much we liked our partner when we first began dating.This best illustrates the dynamics of

During her evening Spanish language exam,Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon.Her difficulty best illustrates

Mentally re-creating the mood that accompanied your original learning of course material is most clearly an effective way to activate

Research reports of repression and recovered memories indicate that

The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve

Jackie frequently experiences intrusive memories of an emotionally traumatic experience that she has been trying to forget.Her intrusive memories provide evidence of unsuccessful memory

Psychologists on both sides of the controversy regarding reports of repressed and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse agree that

The inability to form new memories is called

Dating partners who fall in love tend to ________ how much they liked each other when they first met.Dating partners who break up tend to ________ how much they liked each other when they first met.

Retroactive interference involves the disruption of

A loss of an encoded memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates

Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

Many interesting details of Gwenda's once vivid childhood memories have been lost because her memory trace has faded over the decades of her adult life.Her memory loss most clearly illustrates

Considering what you learned about improving memory from the text,what can you do next or what can you change about the way you currently study that should improve your memory of the material being covered?

The eerie sense of having previously experienced a current situation is known as

Faulty memory for how,when,or where information was learned is called

The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue,but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name.Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by

In one study,children were periodically asked whether they remembered going to the hospital with a mousetrap on their finger.This experiment best illustrated the dynamics of

Knowledge of Latin can help people to learn French.This best illustrates

Ebbinghaus found the task of learning new lists of nonsense syllables increasingly difficult as his research career progressed.Which of the following best explains his problem?