Explanations for forgetting
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- Created on: 21-03-16 19:35
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- Explanations for forgetting
- Intererence
- Proactive: Previously learnt info interferes with new info
- Retroactive: New memory interferes with older ones
- Two pieces of information conflict with each other, more likely to forget if memories are similar
- We forget due to accessibility- memories don't decay, we just cannot access them due to conflicting info
- Retrieval failure
- Encoding specificity principle: if a cue is to help us, it had to be present at the time of encoding. Meaningfully linked/non meaningfully linked
- Context-dependant forgetting: where you learnt something e.g. on land/underwater. Likely to forget if context is different to that of learning
- State-dependant forgetting: in what state you leaned something e.g. drunk/sober. Likely to forget something you learnt when you were drunk when you are sober.
- Evaluation
- S: Controlled experiment, reliable. Real-life application, used in EWT to improve recall.
- W: Demand characteristics. Lacks EV, not usually asked to recall list of words in everyday life. Groups who learnt/recalled in different environments disrupted, reduces reliability. Studies do not take into account meaning of info/motivation to recall.
- Intererence
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