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Unit 5 – Cognitive Psychology
Topic 5.5
What role does the hippocampus play in context-dependent forgetting?
It prevents new information from interfering with old information.
It helps encode contextual details into memory traces.
It erases outdated information from long-term memory.
It suppresses irrelevant background information while learning.
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AP Psychology - 5.5 Forgetting and Memory Distortion
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