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__________ is the tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the retrieval of newer, more recently learned material.

Pezdek and colleagues found that for a person to interpret thoughts and fantasies about false events as true memories, __________.

Each of the 10 children born to Bodhi and Birdie Orangeburg has been born with red hair. Each child is also very intelligent and athletic. The Orangeburgs are expecting an 11th child, who is also likely to be born with the same traits according to __________, as evidenced in the __________.

You spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many different paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from your cousin whom you haven’t seen for years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of __________.

As memories get older, they are most likely to __________.

In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning are __________.

The research of Eich and Metcalfe would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math, you should be __________ when taking the math exam to do well.

The divergent thinking technique of writing down everything that comes to mind about a topic without revising or proofreading until all of the information is recorded, and then organizing it later, is known as __________.

“If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated.” This is a statement of __________.

A. R. Luria studied an individual with phenomenal memory. This person was a __________.