Cognitive psychologists see SLA as the building up of knowledge that can eventually be called on ____________ for speaking and understanding.

Thanks to automaticity in language processing, _________ language users can give their full attention to the overall meaning of a text or conversation.

Who developed the theory of meaningful learning?

The following is a case of ______: Memory of old locker combination interferes with recall of new gym locker combination.

The following is a case of ______: Your new password for online store interferes with recall of old Instagram password.

Forgetting is really a second or “obliterative” stage of ______.

Because it is _______ to retain a single inclusive concept than to remember a large number of more specific items, the importance of a specific item tends to be incorporated, or subsumed, into the generalized meaning of the larger item.

In this obliterative stage of _________, the specific items become progressively less identifiable as entities in their own right until they are finally no longer available and are said to be forgotten.

Subsumed items are “____” in favor of a larger concept in cognitive structure.

______is an ability to perform a task with little attention.

Systematic forgetting or pruning is not haphazard or chance.

Pruned items may actually be obliterated because pruning is an arbitrary and unsystematic process.

Pruned items could still be an integral part of “deep” cognitive structure.

The process of losing language is called ______.

Language attrition is limited to second language acquisition.