____ refers to the idea that particular information has been permanently stored in long-term memory and, hence, can be retrieved.
a. Constancy
b. Retroactivity
c. Availability
d. Accessibility
Ques. 2In general, as the amount of learning prior to recall increases, ____ increases.
a. availability
b. decay
c. interference
d. construction
Ques. 3____ occurs when competing information causes us to forget something.
a. Decay
b. Reconstructive interference
c. Unlearning
d. Interference
Ques. 4Whereas ____ theory views one piece of information as knocking out another, ____ theory views the original piece of information as gradually disappearing unless something is done to keep it intact.
a. decay; interference
b. interference; decay
c. availability; interference
d. interference; availability
Ques. 5Sometimes we know that we know something, like the name of a neighbor from many years ago, but we just cannot bring it to mind. In this situation, we are experiencing difficulty with ____.
a. availability
b. persistence
c. accessibility
d. transience
Ques. 6In an exhaustive serial processing search of short-term memory, people generally take ____ amount(s) of time to find a target ____.
a. different; depending on where in the list it is located.
b. the same; regardless of where in the list it is located.
c. the same; as long as the target is one of the first 3 items.
d. the same; as long as the target is one of the last 3 items.
Ques. 7When memory processes are said to occur in order, one after the other, the processing is best described as ____.
a. serial
b. compound
c. parallel
d. linear
Ques. 8When multiple memory processes are said to occur simultaneously, the processing is best described as ____.
a. serial
b. compound
c. parallel
d. linear
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