Question 21 (1 point) A retrieval cue is BEST described as: Question 21 options:

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A retrieval cue is BEST described as:

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The likelihood that information moves past sensory memory and becomes encoded, stored in long-term memory, and retrieved depends MOSTLY upon its _____.

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The _____ effect is the tendency to remember the last items in a series particularly well, whereas the _____ effect is the tendency to remember the first items in a series particularly well.

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Which is NOT a type of mnemonic?

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The type of influence on retrieval where recent experiences increase the likelihood of recalling certain memories is known as _____.

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a) a reminder that facilitates retrieval of information from memory. b) a distinctively clear memory of an emotionally charged event. c) the spontaneous recall of information without any intention to retrieve it. d) a memory that you can declare to another person as factual.

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Answer -21 a) a reminder that facilitates the retrival of information from memory.

Explaination- Retrieval of Information is the process of reminding the past information from our memory that is similar to our recent information.

Answer-22 b)retroactive interference

Explaination- Retroactive means influence to a prior time or to prior conditions and inference is the act of interfering something .So REtrival of memory is the interference in the past memory to recall and remember something that is similar to the present one.

Answer-23 d) recency;primacy

Explaination-When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall), people tend to begin recall with the end of the list, recalling those items best that is the recency effect. Among earlier list items, the first few items are recalled more frequently than the middle items is  primacy effect.

Answer-24 c) disributed practice

Explaination- Distributed practice  is a learning strategy, where practice is broken up into a number of short sessions – over a longer period of time. But the other options are all mnemonics methods to learn something quickly.

Answer-25. c) interference

Explaination- Interference focuses on the recent information or expereience to recall certain memories but other like chunking is to remember the information into chunks to mean it ina whole.Decay is also somehting in which memory fades with the passage of time and priming is nonconsious memory which remember only perceptual indentification of words and objects.

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