Card 4 / 45: Memory researchers have studied factors that make it more or le ss likely that a person will remember or forget information. People remember material, like recall of nonsense syllables, better if they sleep 8 hours between study and test than if they are awake for 8 hours between study and test; this result supports the idea of __________. People make more errors in remembering a list of words (such as names of fruits) if they have just previously studied another similar list of words (like names of other frui ts); this results supports the idea of ________. People remember a list of words better if they study and recall words in the same environment (like studying underwater and recalling underwater) than in different environments (like studying underwater and recalling on land); this results supports the idea of _________.
A)
encoding specificity; retroactive interference; proactive interference
B)
retroactive interference; proactive interference; encoding spec ificity
C)
retroactive interference; encoding specificity; proactive interference
D)
proactive interference; encoding specificity; retroactive inter ference
Answer:
B) retroactive interference; proactive interference; encoding spec ificity
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Prof.John GabrieliNeuroscientist
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
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