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Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

rapid and subsequently slows down

Based on Herman Ebbinghaus' "forgetting curve" how will your memories for psychological concepts change?

I will forget most psychological concepts soon after learning them, but the information I recall after that immediate drop will be retained for years

Which of the following best describes the position of many current researches regarding repression

Repression rarely occurs as it is difficult to forget emotional material

deja vu refers to the

eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation or event

Professor Maslova has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students. The professor's difficulty best illustrates

proactive interference

A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as

repression

The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to

encoding failures

Using nonsense syllables to study memory, Hermann Ebbinghause found that

the most rapid memory loss for new information occurs shortly after it is learned

The eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation is known as

deja vu

Although Arturo has looked at his watch thousands of times, he is unable to recall whether the watch features Arabic or Roman numerals. This is most likely due to a failure in

encoding

The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in

encoding

Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of

encoding failure

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on

how long ago we learned that information

Harry Bahrick observed that three years after people completed a Spanish course, they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned. This finding indicates that information is lost while it is

in storage

The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve

interference

You took Spanish during your sophomore year, and French during your junior year. Happily, you found that knowing Spanish helped you learn French. This phenomenon is best explained by

positive transfer

Learning a new ATM password may block the recall of a familiar old password. This illustrates

proactive interference

Philippe has just completed medical school. In reflecting on his years of formal education, he is able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher who flunked him. According to Freud, his forgetting illustrates:

repression

Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in

retrieval

When Jake applied for a driver's license, he was embarrassed by a momentary inability to remember his address. Jake's memory difficulty most likely resulted from a(n) ________ failure.

retrieval

After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of

retroactive interference

After studying biology all afternoon Alonzo is having difficulty remembering details of the organic chemistry material that he memorized that morning, Alonzos difficulty best illustrates

retroactive interference

Two people learned nonsense syllables and then tried to recall them after up to eight hours had elapsed. John Jenkins and Karl Dallenbach observed that forgetting occurred least rapidly when the individuals spent their time

sleeping