Explanation of forgetting

Question 1

The 2 explanation of forgetting

Answer 1

• Interference
• absense of cues

Question 2

2 types of interference

Answer 2

• proactive
• retroactive

Question 3

what is proactive

Answer 3

when older information interferes with your ability to remember something new

e.g:- when you try to remember your password, but you keep thinking of your old password.

Question 4

what is retroactive

Answer 4

newer information gets distrubuted by older information

e.g:- trying to remember your address form 10 years ago, but you keeping thinking of your address from 2 years ago.

Question 5

A03 :
limitation of interference

Answer 5

limited explanatory power:
- interference only explain when 2 types of interferes are similar, but does not explain when the situations are different

lacks ecological and external validity:
- psychological research on forgetting on interference is often based on experiments in artificial lab and so findings might not transfer to real life situation

Question 6

what is the definition of absense of cues

Answer 6

when information is stored in LTM but can not be accessed because there is no memory to trigger the memory.

Question 7

what did tulving and thomas suggest
(absense of cues)

Answer 7

suggest when forgetting is more likely to occur when the context in which memory is recalled is different from the context in memory which was coded

Question 8

2 types of absense of cues

Answer 8

• context depending state
• state depending state

Question 9

what is the context depending state

Answer 9

when external information does not provide the cues necessary to recall a memory

Question 10

what is the state depending state

Answer 10

when the internal enviroment during recall is different from the internal enviroment when the memory is coded

Question 11

A03 of State Depending State

Answer 11

research
Darley et al
observed the participent who forget where they put the money while high on are more likely to remember were they hid they money once they are hiding then when they were sober

Question 12

limitation of absense of Cues

Answer 12

lacks ecological and external validity:
- psychological research on forgetting on absense of cues is often based on experiments in artificial lab and so findings might not transfer to real life situation