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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 back 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 first person to argue that the passage of time does not cause forgetting was probably ______

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McGeoch

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Riding a bicycle is an example of _____ memory

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Procedural

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

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Proactive Interference

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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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Forgetting is the deterioration of ______

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Performance

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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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The Chase and Simon study comparing chess masters and ordinary players showed than 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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The names of the Great Lakes can be recalled with the help of the acronym ________

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HOMES

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The "man who couldn't forget" was studied by _____

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Luria

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Another term for episodic memory is ______

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Autobiographical

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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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A study of immobilized cockroaches showed the importance of _______ in forgetting

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Retroactive Interference

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

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2,000

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Endal Tulving said that ______ memories have to do with "knowledge of the world".

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Semantic

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

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Prompted Recall

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Jill thinks that Jack may have 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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The Jenkins and Dallenback study of forgetting after sleep suggests that forgetting is a function of ______

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Learning

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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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John has difficulty training a raccoon to pick up coins and put them in a bank. It is most likely that __________

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The raccoon was contraprepared to learn the task

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Skinners efforts to teach pigeons to play ping pong demonstrate that the inability to learn a skill may sometimes by overcome by ________

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Making allowances for physical limitations

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"The Ape in Our House" was written by _______

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C. Hayes

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While walking in the woods, Larry happens to stumble across a nest of turkey eggs just as they are hatching. Larry watches the chicks as they emerge from their eggs and begin walking around. As he leaves the nest area, Larry finds that the young birds are determined to go with him. Larry's new friends are victims of ________

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Imprinting

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Keller and Marion Breland are known for their article _________

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The Misbehavior of Organisms

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Armadillos curl up in a ball when attacked. Reginald teaches an armadillo to curl up into a ball when a buzzer sounds. Reginald is making use of the phenomenon known as _________

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Preparedness

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If a new behavior appears without reinforcement, it is likely an example of ________

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Autoshaping

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Harry and Martha Frank found that on barrier problems, dogs did not perform as well as ________

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Wolves

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Efforts to reach chimpanzees to talk probably failed because ________

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Chimps lack the biological structures for speech

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