Explinations for Forgetting - Interference Theory
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- Created on: 01-05-19 20:08
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- Eplanation for Forgetting Interference Theory
- Main infomation
- Two memories are competing
- The more similar the memories are the more interference it causes
- Proactive Interference
- Coding of a new memory being interfered with due to past similar memories
- e.g. Remembering an old number instead of trying to recall the new number
- Retroactive interference
- Coding of new information disrupts previously stored information (backwards)
- E.g. Unable to remember old phone number because of the new one in memory now
- McDonald et al
- What done?
- Participants given 10 words to learn until they could remember with 100% accuracy
- Participants then had to learn a new set
- One new set out of 6
- What found?
- Greatest interference came when memories were most similar
- So what?
- Evaluation
- Strength
- Lab study
- Valid results due to control of extraneous variables
- Lab study
- Limitation
- Lab study
- Lacks mundane realism
- Lab study
- Strength
- What done?
- Baddeley and Hitch
- What done?
- Everyday situation
- asked rugby players the names of teams they had played that reason week by week
- What found?
- Interference from number of players rather than time between their last game and recall
- What done?
- Burke et all
- What done?
- Everyday situation
- participants given magazine adverts who had to recall details of what they had seen
- What found?
- Greatest interference when adverts were similar
- Competitive interference
- Greatest interference when adverts were similar
- What done?
- Main infomation
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