Expanations of Forgetting
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- Created on: 13-01-20 15:34
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- Explanations of forgetting
- Interference
- Retroactive
- Occurs when newer memories disrupt the recall of older memories.
- Proactive
- Occurs when older memories disrupt the recall of newer memories.
- Forgetting because on memory blocks another, causing them to be distorted. the degree of forgetting is greater when the memories are similar
- Retroactive
- Retrieval Failure Theory
- Encoding Specifity Principle: found by Tulving (1983), a cue must be present at encoding and retrieval to be helpful
- A cue is a trigger that allow us to access memories. can be indirectly linked by being encoded as the information is being learnt
- cues can be internal (eg mood you are in) or external (environmental context)
- Interference
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