Exp For Forgetting - Interferrance

Question 1

What are the two types of interference

Answer 1

Proactive interference
Retroactive interference

Question 2

What is interference

Answer 2

When pieces of information interfere with eachother which results in forgetting.

Question 3

What makes interference worse

Answer 3

The similarity of the information

Question 4

Proactive interference is

Answer 4

When forgetting occurs when older memories disrupt the recall of newer memories

Question 5

Retroactive interference is

Answer 5

When forgetting occurs due to new memories disrupting the recall of older already stored information
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Question 6

AO3 strength of interference

Answer 6

Underwood
-Lab experiment
-Independent groups
-volunteer sampling
-The investigated the effect of proactive interference on forgetting
-when asked to memorise lists of words the participants didn’t learn the later words as well (like in serial position curve)
-if participants memorised 10+ lists then recall after 24h was 20%
-if they only learne 1 list it was 70%
-This suggests proactive interference has an effect on forgetting new info due to the old info

Question 7

AO3 weakness for interferrence

Answer 7

Research by Bahrick into the duration of LTM suggests that we forget due to decay and retrieval failure and research by Godden and Baddeley and by Carter and Cassaday suggest that we forget due to retrieval failure.

This suggests that interference does not provide a complete explanation of why we forget in LTM.