PSYC 387 - UNIT 7 EXAM QUESTIONS AND DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RAT
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1. Proactive inhibition (interference): the impairment of performance on a task due to the learning of
a previous task
2. Retroactive inhibition (interference): he impairment of performance on a task due to the learning
of a subsequent task.
3. Serial anticipation learning: to memorize list, recall one item at a time
4. Paired-associate learning: A learning task in which participants are first presented with pairs of words,
then one word of each pair is presented and the task is to recall the other word.
5. Free recall: a testing condition in which a person is asked to remember information without explicit retrieval
cues
6. Recognition task: An explicit memory task that requires participants to identify which items on a list had
been presented at an earlier time.
7. FORGETTING: deterioration in performance of learned behavior following a retention interval
8. Retention Interval: period during which learning or practice of the behaviour does not occur.
9. declarative memories: things that can be expressed, semantic, episodic
10. NONDECLARATIVE MEMORIES: records of learning that cannot be expressed. - ex. procedural
11. relearning method: a method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn materia
with the time used in the initial learning of the material
12. delayed matching to sample: a method of measuring forgetting in which the opportunity to match
a sample follows a retention interval - fail to match = forgetting
13. extinction method (Skinner): behaviour on extinction after a retention interval. When extinction
proceeds more rapidly than it would have immediately after training, forgetting has occurred.
14. gradient degradation: forgetting may also be measured as a flattening of a generalization gradient
15. Does the passage of time cause forgetting?: McGeoch - Time itself is not an event and can
therefore not be said to cause other events.
-to explain forgetting, then, we must identify the events that account for its occurrence.
16. overlearning: learning continues even after we seem to have achieved mastery.
more overlearning = greater fluency & long-term retention
17. relationship between meaningfulness of verbal material and forgetting: For-
getting occurs rapidly when we learn unrelated words, random digits, and nonsense syllables
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1. Proactive inhibition (interference): the impairment of performance on a task due to the learning of
a previous task
2. Retroactive inhibition (interference): he impairment of performance on a task due to the learning
of a subsequent task.
3. Serial anticipation learning: to memorize list, recall one item at a time
4. Paired-associate learning: A learning task in which participants are first presented with pairs of words,
then one word of each pair is presented and the task is to recall the other word.
5. Free recall: a testing condition in which a person is asked to remember information without explicit retrieval
cues
6. Recognition task: An explicit memory task that requires participants to identify which items on a list had
been presented at an earlier time.
7. FORGETTING: deterioration in performance of learned behavior following a retention interval
8. Retention Interval: period during which learning or practice of the behaviour does not occur.
9. declarative memories: things that can be expressed, semantic, episodic
10. NONDECLARATIVE MEMORIES: records of learning that cannot be expressed. - ex. procedural
11. relearning method: a method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn materia
with the time used in the initial learning of the material
12. delayed matching to sample: a method of measuring forgetting in which the opportunity to match
a sample follows a retention interval - fail to match = forgetting
13. extinction method (Skinner): behaviour on extinction after a retention interval. When extinction
proceeds more rapidly than it would have immediately after training, forgetting has occurred.
14. gradient degradation: forgetting may also be measured as a flattening of a generalization gradient
15. Does the passage of time cause forgetting?: McGeoch - Time itself is not an event and can
therefore not be said to cause other events.
-to explain forgetting, then, we must identify the events that account for its occurrence.
16. overlearning: learning continues even after we seem to have achieved mastery.
more overlearning = greater fluency & long-term retention
17. relationship between meaningfulness of verbal material and forgetting: For-
getting occurs rapidly when we learn unrelated words, random digits, and nonsense syllables
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