Interference
- Created by: Emma-Cargillxx
- Created on: 03-06-17 09:18
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- Forgetting - Interference
- Forgetting is when information can't be retrieved
- Forgetting information from STM is thought to be down to availability problems, the information has been displaced or faded away due to spontaneous decay
- Forgetting can also occur due to 'Retrieval Failure' & 'Interference'
- Interference is where two pieces of information conflict with each other, resulting in forgetting of one or both
- Interference has been mainly an explanation in long term memory
- Interference is one explanation for forgetting
- There are two types of Interference 'Retroactive Interference' 'Proactive Interference'
- Retroactive Interference is where new information interferes with the ability to recall older information
- Underwood & Postman carried out a study to support retroactive interference
- Two groups split in half, both groups given a list of paired words to learn, one of the groups was given a second list where the first word of the pair was the same as the first list, both groups then tested on recall for the 1st list
- Recall was better for the group with only one list suggesting retroactive inerference had affected the other group
- Underwood & Postman carried out a study to support retroactive interference
- Proactive Interference is where older information interferers with the ability to recall new information
- Postman
- Looked into study of forgetting over a 24 hour period. Found that if people had previously learnt 15+ words lists during the same experiment, a day later recall of the last word list was 20%, where as if no earlier lists has been recalled, recall was 80%
- Proactive Interference from the earlier list had affected the participants ability to remember new in-formation
- Postman
- Forgetting is when information can't be retrieved
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