explanations of forgetting

Question 1

What is interference?

Answer 1

• forgetting because one memory blocks another causing one or both memories to become distorted or forgotten.

Question 2

What is retroactive interference

Answer 2

Forgetting occurs when newer memories disrupt recall of old memories

Question 3

What is proactive interference

Answer 3

older memories disrupt recall of newer memories

Question 4

What did Schmidt do?

Answer 4

-200 former students of a school were given a blank map of the schools in the local area
- asked to write down as many street names as they know
-personal details were asked such as how many times they had moved house or where they lived

Question 5

What are the results of Schmidt experiment?

Answer 5

-The amount of times people had moves house the more streets they had forgotten

Question 6

What type of interference did Schmidt look at?

Answer 6

Retroactive interference because learning new street names disrupts recall of older street names.

Question 7

How is interference the strongest?

Answer 7

When memories are similar

Question 8

What didMcgeoh and Mcdonald discover?

Answer 8

Interference is worse when the memories are similar
-They studied retroactive interference by changing the amount of similarity between two sets of materials, participants had to learn a list of 10 words until they could remember them with 100% accuracy. They then learnt a new list of 10 words .
When participants were asked to recall the original list, the most similar words produced the worst recall (synonyms)