Explanations Of Forgetting Flashcards
What is encoding specificityy principle?
Where memory is most effective if information that was present I encoding this also available at the time of retrieval furthermore acute and have to be an exact match but the closer clue the more useful it will be
What is contacts department failure
Occurs with external retrieval cues with forgetting occurring when the external environment is different at recall from how it was at coding for example remembering something when it’s raining and trying to recall it when it’s sunny
State dependent failure
A clothes with internal retrieval cues for getting occurs when an individual’s internal environment is dissimilar how recalled when information was coded for example remembering something but after you’ve had alcohol you forget details as alcohol effects your memory
Tulving and pearlstone
Procedure: participants had to learn 48 words belonging to 12 categories each word was presented as a category plus word four example fruit-apple there were two different recall conditions participants had to recall as many words as a chord free recall or they were giving cues and the form of the category names in the free recall condition 40% of the words were recalled whereas in the queued recall 60% were recalled
Conclusion: if retrieval q is present are encoding and retrieval we are more likely to remember especially if we link the q to the material in a meaningful way