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Information stored in long-term memory seems to be primarily |
Semantically encoded |
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An individual can reflect on and use his/her awareness or knowledge to influence thinking. This use of your knowledge about cognitive processes is called |
Metacognition |
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People tend to learn better when they acquire knowledge via |
Distributed learning |
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In an effort to remember some grocery items, Andrew visualizes a huge loaf of bread, with a bottle of soda balanced on one side of the bread and a can of soup on the other. Andrew is using |
Mnemonic device |
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occurs when competing information causes us to forget something. |
Interference |
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Retroactive interference is caused by activity occurring __________ we learn something and __________ we are asked to recall that thing. |
After, before |
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Proactive interference occurs when the interfering material occurs __________ rather than __________ learning of the to-be-remembered material. |
Before, after |
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A typical serial position curve shows that recall of words in a list is best for items __________ of the list and poorest for items __________. |
at and near the end; in the middle |
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occurs when simply the passage of time causes us to forget. |
Decay |
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Many people believe that they remember with great detail and vividness the context in which they heard the news that the Challenger space shuttle had exploded. This is an example of a(n) __________ memory. |
Flashbulb memory |
