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Match each type of retrieval failure with its definition. 1. Remembering information about doing something in the future square 2. The loss of memory square v 3. The theory that people forget not because memories are lost from storage but because other information gets in the way of what they want to remember square v 4. Theory stating that when we learn something new, a neurochemica trace forms, but over time this trace disintegrates, suggests that the passage of time always increases forgetting square v 5. Type of effortable retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but cannot quite pull it out of memory square v
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Rory
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1. Remembering information about doing something in the future: **Prospective memory**2. The loss of memory: **Amnesia**3. The theory that people forget not because memories are lost from storage but because other information gets in the way of what they want to remember: **Interference theory**4. Theory stating that when we learn something new, a neurochemical memory trace forms, but over time this trace disintegrates, suggests that the passage of time always increases forgetting: **Decay theory**5. Type of effortable retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but cannot quite pull it out of memory: **Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon**