Explinations for Forgetting - Retrieval Failure
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- Created on: 02-05-19 10:53
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- Explanations for Forgetting Retrieval Failure
- Main Infomation
- Failure due to failing to access the memory
- Due to insufficient cures/clues to aid recall
- Effectiveness of cues is depended on number of items associated with it
- Failure due to failing to access the memory
- Tulving
- Encoding Specificity Principle (ESP)
- The idea that cues need to be present at time of encoding and retrieval
- Encoding Specificity Principle (ESP)
- Contest Dependant Failure (external cues)
- Depends on external environment being similar to time of encoding
- Godden and Baddeley 1975
- What done?
- Deep sea divers learnt list of words
- Group 1 on land
- Group 2 Underwater
- Asked to recall it in either same environment or different
- Deep sea divers learnt list of words
- What found?
- Recall was 40% less accurate when recall conditions were different to original environment
- What done?
- Main Infomation
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