explanations of forgetting Flashcards
1
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retroactive interfernce
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when a new memory interferes with an old memory e.g fogreting old classmates names from a year because have new classmates
2
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proactive interference
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when an old memory interferes with a new memory e.g put in old phone number rather than new
3
Q
interference theory
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states forgetting is caused by two memories competing
these memories may be simialr to one another or remebred and recalled at simialr time
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