During college, you took several semesters of a foreign language. According to Ebbinghaus, you would _____ a lot of information early on, but then the rate of loss _____ as the length of time _____.

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According to Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, we tend to forget information quickly in the beginning, so we would "forget a lot of information early on" (option A). As time goes on, the rate of forgetting slows down, so the answer is "slows" (option A). Finally, Ebbinghaus also discovered that the longer we go without reviewing information, the more we forget, so the answer is "increases" (option A). Therefore, option A is the best choice.

During College, You Took Several Semesters of a Foreign Language