Explanations of forgetting

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What is retroactive interference?
How recall ability is decreased if participants are given other information.
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What is proactive interference?
Participants who memorised 10 or more lists, after 24 hours they only remember about 20 percent.
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What is a criticism of research into interference?
Interference doesn't occur that often in regular life.
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What are cues?
Things that serve as reminders, that may be meaningfully linked
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What occurs in the absence of cues?
retrieval failure.
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What is state dependant forgetting?
The mental state you are in may act as a cue for forgetting.
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How are retrieval cues backed up?
Research evidence.
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