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This study guide covers memory failures, focusing on why we forget. Key concepts include the forgetting curve (rapid initial forgetting and slowing over time), retrieval difficulties (encoding failure, proactive/retroactive interference, tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon), ego defense and repression, and memory accuracy challenges (misinformation effect, source amnesia, constructive memory). It also provides practice questions and exam tips.
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Question 1 of 8
According to the forgetting curve, when does the most rapid forgetting of new information typically occur? 🤔
Immediately after learning
A few days after learning
A week after learning
A month after learning