Forgetting Flashcards
What causes forgetting from the STM?
It’s limited capacity or limited duration
How does information disappear from the STM?
It is displaced or decayed
How can long-term memory be affected?
By decay
Memories are hard to retrieve
Memories can be confused
What is interference?
Something similar which you have learnt before or since affects your ability to remember
What are the two types of interference?
Retroactive and proactive
What is retroactive interference?
New information interferes with the ability to recall older information
Which study supports retroactive interference?
Underwood and Postman 1960
What is proactive interference?
Older information interferes with the ability to recall new information
Which study supports proactive interference?
Underwood 1957
Give one strength for interference theory
Lots of lab studies support it
Evidence in real life
Give one weakness for interference theory
The effects are greater in the lab than in real life
It doesn’t explain how or why interference happens
What is cue dependent learning?
We remember more if we are in the same mood or context as we were when we coded the information originally
In Cue Recall, what is forgetting seen as?
Retrieval failure
Who compared the theories of interference and Q dependent forgetting?
Tulving and Psotka 1971
Give a strength of cue dependent forgetting
It has the strongest evidence
