Mod 33 Reading Guide

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those who cannot recall their past ---- the old information stored in long-term memory ---- suffer from __________ amnesia

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retrograde

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Like Alzheimer's patients, whose explicit memories for new people and events are lost, they could form new __________ memories

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implicit

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Compared with those just completing a high school or college Spanish course, people 3 years out of school had forgotten much of what they had learned. However, what people remembered then, they still remembered 25 and more years later. Their forgetting had _________ off.

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leveled

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Often, forgetting is not memories faded but memories ______________.

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unretrieved

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Proactive interference occurs when _______ learning disrupts your recall of new information.

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prior

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The fewer times you use it (a memory), the more pristine it is. This means that, to some degree, "all memory is ______"

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false, incorrect, wrong

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So powerful is the _______________ effect that it can influence later attitudes and behaviors

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misinformation

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Misattribution is at the heart of many false memories. Authors, songwriters and stand-up comedians sometimes suffer from it. They think an idea came from their own creative imagination, when in fact they are ________________ plagiarizing something they earlier read or heard.

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unintentionally, accidentally

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Because the misinformation effect and source amnesia happen outside our awareness, it is hard to __________ false memories from real ones.

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separate