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REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING
REMEMBERING
1. Where did I park the car? What is my schedule for the day? What is my 5th grade teacher’s name?
We are constantly _________________________________ memories.
2. Memories are _________________________________ _________________________________ that link all sorts of diverse
things as bits of information getting stuck to other bits of information.
3. The more _________________________________ _________________________________ you can remember either
consciously or unconsciously the better you can back track to retrieve the memory.
4. Priming is activating associations non-consciously. This is also known as
“_________________________________ _________________________________.”
Give an example of priming:
5. Define context-dependent memory =
Give an example of context-dependent memory:
6. Define state-dependent memory =
State-dependent memory is also known as _________________________________.
Give an example of state-dependent memory:
7. Give an example the serial position effect:
What is another name for the serial position effect?
FORGETTING
8. What are the 3 ways we forget:
1.
2.
3.
9. Why do we fail to encode information?
10. Why do we experience storage decay?
11. Define proactive interference =
Give an example of proactive interference:
12. Define retroactive interference =
Give an example of retroactive interference:
13. The _________________________________ _________________________________ is incorporating misleading
information into one’s memory of an event.
14. Name the psychologist, _________________________________, who discovered that eyewitnesses inadvertently
tweak and reconstruct their memories after accidents or crimes.
15. _________________________________ _________________________________ is forgetting or misleading the source of a
memory.
16. Our _________________________________ affect whether we remember or forget.
How is that our emotions affect whether we remember or forget?
17. Memory is both a _________________________________ and a _________________________________ of past events.
18. Research supported by the Innocence Project found that _________% of Americans exonerated from
prisons were convicted by mistaken eyewitnesses. Therefore, eyewitnesses are not
always reliable.