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As dominique reviews the vocabulary terms for her french class when is she most likely to experience the greatest degree of forgetting

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She will forget the most immediately after learning the new terms. This is because the words haven't been stored in long-term memory, yet. They are still encoded in the short-term areas. Only after being encoded and stored in long-term memory will she begin to associate the words properly.
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