Forgetting - Introduction
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- Forgetting
- The experience of not being able to recall information such as an event, fact or a person's name
- There are many theories of forgetting although a distinction can be made between availability and accessibility theories
- Availability theories; memories are forgotten because they have been permanently lost from the brain
- Trace decay theory argues that memories are forgotten because the physical trace left in the brain of a memory disappears over time
- Mainly used to explain forgetting in short term memory
- Accessibility theories; memories still exist but are difficult to retrieve
- Cue-dependency theory argues that forgetting occurs when we have the information we are seeking but our memory lacks the cues to access it
- Mainly used to explain forgetting in the long term memory
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