Forgetting Definitions

our capacity for _______ is virtually unlimited

• recall

• recognition

• relearning

retrieval cue is used by multiple choice or matching questions

• recall

• recognition

• relearning

done when rehearsing, practicing, or studying

• recall

• recognition

• relearning

a mental process that automatically hides emotionally threatening or anxiety-producing information

• source amnesia

• interference

• amnesia

• repression

easier to recall info when you are in the same state as when you originally encoded it

• mood-congruent

• state-dependent memory

• recognition capacity

the inability to remember where, when or how previously learned information has been acquired

• source amnesia

• interference

• repression

• amneisa

Memory is altered every time you recall it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Memory is fallible

• TRUE

• FALSE

occurs when old information blocks or disrupts the

remembering of related new information

• ENCODING EFFECT

• PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

• RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

• CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESSING

Occurs when new information blocks of disrupts the retrieval of related old information

• ENCODING EFFECT

• PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

• RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

• CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESSING