psychology lesson 2 mr g

psychology lesson 2

forgetting:

• there are two explanations to forgetting:
• interference
• retrieval failure

Interference:

• when two pieces of information disrupt each other
• results in forgetting one or both or in some distortion of the memory
• mainly for the LIM
• when information has reached the LIM it is more or less permanent
• so forgetting of LIM's is most likely because we can't get access to them even though they are available
• interference between memories makes it harder for us to locate them

Two types of interference:

• proactive interference (PI) [before]
• retroactive interference (RI)…