Forgetting

Forgetting is...

• The inability to recall words and phrases stored in one's short term memory

• The inability to access or recover information stored in one's memory

• The inability to store information in one's memory

• The inability to access information about events from one's long term memory

Which of the following is NOT a memory retrieval clue?

• Physical

• Semantic

• Numerical

• Phonetic

Which of the following things does retrieval failure theory include?

• Memories being present but inaccessible

• Encoding failures and a lack of retrieval cues

• Failure to create and store memories

• Failure to use the right cues to retrieve information stored in long term memory

Encoding failure, which prevents information from entering long term memory, often occurs because someone was not paying _________.

There are two types of memory retrieval cues - _______ and state dependent.

State dependent cues are associated with someone's physiological or psychological state at the time a memory was formed.

• True

• False

If someone retraces their steps looking for something, which sort of cue is this?

• Context dependent

• State dependent

Retrieval failure theory has limits. Which of the following are limitations to retrieval failure theory?

• Its inability to account for anxiety-laden memories

• Its inability to account for retrieval clues being confined to only context ones.

• Its inability to account for lost memories from brain trauma or neurodegenerative disorders

• Its inability to account for memories interfering with one another due to similarity

Serial position effect highlights the idea that when presented with a list of words people remember the ones in the middle, rather than the ones at the beginning or end.

• True

• False

Recall drops as time lapses.

• True

• False