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Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges (Goes w/ Forgetting W/S)

Authored by Deanna Trembow

Social Studies

11th Grade

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Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges (Goes w/ Forgetting W/S)
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What does the forgetting curve illustrate about the course of forgetting?

It is constant over time.

It is initially rapid, then levels off.

It decreases steadily.

It increases with time.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Michael was studying for his history exam but couldn't remember the details of the French Revolution because he did not fully pay attention during the lectures. What is a reason for why Michael is struggling?

Failure to encode information into his memory.

Interference of new information Michael learned.

Failure to understand new information.

Failure to organize information logically.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

What can cause memories to be difficult to retrieve?

Encoding failure

Interference

Retrieval failure

All options apply.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is proactive interference?

New information disrupts old information.

Old information disrupts new information.

Information is lost over time.

Information is encoded incorrectly.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

John has been using the same phone number for ten years. Recently, he got a new phone number. When someone asks for John's number, he accidentally gives his old one instead of the new one. Type of interference?

Proactive

Retroactive

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Sarah recently started learning Spanish after spending two years studying French. During a French conversation practice, she mistakenly uses Spanish words instead of the correct French ones.

Retroactive interference

Proactive interference

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

In one classic experiment, two groups of people watched a traffic accident film clip and then answered questions about what they had seen (Loftus & Palmer, 1974). Those asked, “About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?” gave higher speed estimates than those asked, “About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?”

Which concept does this finding represent?

Source amnesia

Retroactive interference

Misinformation effect

Imagination inflation

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