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Chapter 6- Memory Retrieval
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1[blank_start]Retrieval[blank_end] refers to the process of accessing and retrieving stored information in long term memory
- ARetrieval
2A [blank_start]retrieval cue[blank_end] is a clue, prompt, or hint that can help trigger recall of stored memory
- Aretrieval cue
3Retrieval cue [blank_start]failure[blank_end] is the inability to recall long-term memories because of inadequate or missing retrieval cues
- Afailure
4[blank_start]Tip of the tongue[blank_end] experience is a memory phenomenon that involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory but being temporarily unable to retrieve it
- ATip of the tongue
5[blank_start]Recall[blank_end] involves producing information using no retrieval cues
- ARecall
6A [blank_start]cued[blank_end] recall involves remembering an item of information in response to a retrieval cue
- Acued
7Recognition is a test of long term memory that involves identifying correct information out of several possible choices?
- ATrue
- BFalse
8[blank_start]Serial position[blank_end] effect refers to the tendency to retrieve information more easily from the beginning and the end of a list rather than from the middle
- ASerial position
9[blank_start]Encoding[blank_end] specificity principle is when the conditions of information retrieval are similar to the conditions of information encoding, retrieval is more likely to be successful
- AEncoding
10The [blank_start]context effect[blank_end] is the tendency to remember information more easily when the retrieval occurs in the same setting in which you originally learned the information
- Acontext effect
11[blank_start]Mood[blank_end] congruence is an encoding specificity phenomenon in which a given mood tends to evoke memories that are consistent with that mood
- AMood
12[blank_start]Flashbulb[blank_end] memory is the recall of very specific images or details surrounding a vivid, rare, or significant personal event
- AFlashbulb
13[blank_start]Forgetting[blank_end] is the inability to recall information that was previously available
- AForgetting
14The German psychologist that began the scientific study of forgetting is?
- ASkinner
- BWaston
- CEbbinghaus
15[blank_start]Encoding[blank_end] failure is the inability to recall specific information because of insufficient encoding of the information for storage in long-term memory
- AEncoding
16Prospective memory is remembering to do something in the future?
- ATrue
- BFalse
17The [blank_start]decay theory[blank_end] is the view that forgetting is due to normal metabolic processes that occur in the brain over time
- Adecay theory
18According to the [blank_start]interference[blank_end] theory of forgetting, forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another memory
- Ainterference
19[blank_start]Retroactive interference[blank_end] is forgetting in which a new memory interferes with remembering an old memory; backward acting memory interference
- ARetroactive interference
- BProactive interference
20[blank_start]Proactive interference[blank_end] is forgetting in which an old memory interferes with remembering a new memory; forward-acting memory interference
- AProactive interference
- BRetroactive interference
21[blank_start]Suppression[blank_end] is motivated forgetting that occurs consciously; a deliberate attempt to not think about and remember specific information
- ASuppression
- BRepression
22[blank_start]Repression[blank_end] is motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously; a memory that is blocked and unavailable to consciousness
- ARepression
- BSuppression
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