Interference - theory of forgetting

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Definition
Information interferes with information being rehearsed
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Proactive
Old information gets in the way of new information
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Retroactive
New information gets in the way of retrieving old information
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Evidence
When theres the same word in 2 sets of lists its hard to remember as theres interference
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Supporting evidence
Reliable experiments
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Supporting evidence
What people learn first interferes with what they learn second - Proactive
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Conflicting evidence
Could be displacement
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Conflicting evidence
Artificial tasks
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Conflicting evidence
Interference stopped when given a cue - trace may be present but not retrieved this is not forgetting
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Old information gets in the way of new information

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Proactive

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New information gets in the way of retrieving old information

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Card 4

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When theres the same word in 2 sets of lists its hard to remember as theres interference

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Card 5

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Reliable experiments

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