Cue-dependent forgetting
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 29-04-19 09:45
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- Cue-dependent forgetting
- Context-dependent failure
- Recall occurs in a different external setting to coding
- State-dependent failure
- Recall occurs in a different internal setting to coding
- Context research evidence
- Godden and Baddeley (1975) Divers learn info on dry land or underwater; recall worse when in different context to coding
- Abernethy (1940) PPs had worse recall when tested by unfamiliar teacher in unfamiliar location
- Evaluation
- Tends to use lab experiments
- Don't represent real life; lacks ecological validity and mundane realism
- Highly controlled, easy to replicate to check for reliability and so standardised
- Seen as best explanation explanation for forgetting due to strong evidence
- Fits levels of processing of memory that states that associations aid recall
- Practical applications; used by police to help aid recall of witnesses
- Ignores procedural memory, which isn't affected by this theory
- Tends to use lab experiments
- State research evidence
- Darley et al (1973) PPs who hid money while high on marijuana less able to recall when not high, compared with when they were
- Overton (1972) PPs either drunk or sober; recall worse when in different state than coding
- Context-dependent failure
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