DISPLACEMENT
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- Created on: 01-05-13 14:54
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- DISPLACEMENT
- Where things are forgotten due to new material, items are pushed out to make room from new ones.
- if short term memory is full it can either move to long term or be forgotten
- MILLER's magic number 7 (7+/-2)
- theory has been tested by scientifc experiments with good controls which have shown cause and effect relationships
- means the experiments can be repeated
- 'free recall' experiments
- recency effect - words at ended renembered more.
- WAUGH & NORMAN information is lost because new info is stored so reading faster wouldn't effect recall, but there was an improvement when probe put at end
- suppourts that older information is replaced by new
- difficult to operationalise the theory and measure it. could be decay or interference
- artifical tasks
- Where things are forgotten due to new material, items are pushed out to make room from new ones.
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