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Thank you We sneak in in his your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by karaoke e it's the closest

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you'll ever get to being britney spears unless you do

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it our way when she has to show up at

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the court hearing for the restraining order anyway Here's Our

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question Steven was thinking about karaoke e that he saw

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the previous night He remembered the first singer saying dream

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on and that the second singer saying yellow brick road

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he could not remember the third singer song what's the

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issue and here are potential answers Hey all right well

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even if steven can't remember the hundreds of embarrassing videos

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his buddies took throughout the night would probably help him

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out but since we don't have access to those well

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let's try and figure out the real reason for steven's

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inability to recall the song let's start with a is

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it a state dependent memory Not quite If steven had

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for gotten all of the songs sung that night but

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then suddenly recalled them the next time he had mozzarella

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sticks which you just happen to pig out on that

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night well that would be a state dependent memory This

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is because state dependent memory refers to the way in

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which were better able to recall memories when we're in

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the same state we were in when we first learned

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or experienced them But it's not so this isn't it

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be recall simply refers to the act of retrieving information

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from the past while see recognition describes the feeling of

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familiarity we have when we encounter something we've previously experienced

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D suppression is the act of stopping yourself from thinking

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or feeling something you know like stopping yourself from thinking

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about choosing a seven minute power Ballad as your karaoke

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song All right all related to the question but none

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that really fits the bill Now Retro active interference is

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when new information we learned interacts with older information making

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it harder to recall the earlier stuff It's like If

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someone gives you a phone number to memorize well you

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might just forget a much older number because of it

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But really you should have your mom's number saved on

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your phone by now from our people however what we're

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looking for his e proactive interference This is when it's

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difficult to remember newer information like a song number three

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because old information songs one and two are in the

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way So it looks like is the correct answer Now

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we hope you've got seven minutes because we got a 00:02:17.24 --> [endTime] power ballad to sing and i and when No

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