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The first person to demonstrate the relationship between forgetting and degree of learning was probably____________ .

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Ebbinghaus

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Kamil and Balda found that Clark's nutcrackers could recall the location of food caches for up to ____________.

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6 months

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Meaningful material is forgotten less readily than nonsense material. This shows the importance of ____________.

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previous learning

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Jenkins and Dallenback study of forgetting after sleep suggests that forgetting is a function of ____________.

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learning

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Memories that cannot be expressed are called _____.

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nondeclarative

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When what we learned on Monday interferes with our ability to recall what we learned the following Tuesday, we speak of ____________.

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proactive interference

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Forgetting can be studied by requiring the subject to match a stimulus presented earlier, a procedure called ____________.

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DMTS

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Riding a bicycle is an example of _____ memory.

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procedural

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One measure of forgetting is called delayed matching to sample. This procedures could be considered a form of____________.

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prompted recall

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Loftus found that eyewitness reports are influenced by the words used to ask about the event. In one experiment, she found that use of the word "smashed" produced higher estimates of car speed than use of the word____________.

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hit

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A system for learning with flash cards is known by the acronym____________.

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SAFMEDS

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When forgetting occurs because the environment during recall is different from the environment during training, it is said to be ____________.

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cue-dependent

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To measure forgetting, Ebbinghaus used the ____________ method.

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relearning

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It turns out that Jack (see item 7) can't remember anything that happened from the time he and Jill started up the hill. Jill takes Jack up the hill again and finds that he remembers seeing the well before. Jill is measuring forgetting by using ____________.

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prompted recall

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The names of the Great Lakes can be recalled with help of the acronym, _______.

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HOMES

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In _________ learning, two stimuli, A and B, are presented, and the task is then to recall B when presented with A.

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paired associate

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Endel Tulving said that _____ memories have to do with "knowledge of the world."

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semantic

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Another term for episodic memory is ____ memory.

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autobiographical

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Sir Frederick Barlett's classic study of forgetting used the story, _________.

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The War of the Ghosts

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The term _______ memory refers to learned behavior that can be expressed, usually in words.

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declarative

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When measuring forgetting using the extinction method, the behavior studied is ___________.

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put on extinction after the retention interval

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The Chase and Simon study comparing chess masters and ordinary players showed that when chess pieces were arranged in random order, ____________ .

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chess masters and ordinary players forgot about the same amount

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Harry Bahrick's studies of forgetting have involved retention intervals of up to _______.

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five decades

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The work of Levine and Murphy suggests that people are more likely to forget what they read if they ____________

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disagree with it

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Jack and Jill go up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack falls down and breaks his crown and Jill thinks he may have suffered a concussion. To test his memory, she asks him if he remembers what happened. Jill is measuring forgetting by the method known as ____________.

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free recall

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Forgetting is the deterioration of ____________ .

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not mental processes, not memory

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The first person to argue that the passage of time does not cause forgetting was probably __________.

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McGeoch

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The "man who couldn't forget" was studied by__________.

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Luria

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Forgetting can be measured as a flattening of the generalization gradient, a procedure called gradient____________.

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degradation

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A study of immobilized cockroaches showed the importance of ________________ in forgetting.

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not state dependent learning

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Clark's nutcrackers apparently recall the location of something like _________ food caches.

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2,000

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According to the _____________ metaphor, experiences are stashed in the brain like photographs in an album.

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storage

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