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Understanding Psychology, 6/e
Robert S. Feldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Memory

Selected Rethink Answers

1. Memories for motor skills are extremely long lasting, they may be encoded and stored as kinesthetic (muscular) instructions.

4. Autobiographical memories are our recollections of circumstances and episodes from our lives. Interference means that old memories often interfere with the ability to retrieve new information or new memories interfere with the ability to retrieve old memories. Memories of our past are distorted. We may forget troubled childhoods. Remember passing grades not failing grades.