GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 39

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Memory and Forgetting: Encoding, storage, retrieval, information processing theories, reconstructive memory, encoding failure, interference and trace decay · 1 mark · Multiple choice

While retrieving a long-term memory, bits and pieces of information are gathered from various sources and put back together in a process called

Consolidation
Reintegration
Constructive processing
Automatic processing

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Correct answer: (C) Constructive processing

Explanation

Long-term memory is rebuilt at recall from many pieces, which is constructive processing (Bartlett).