Forgetting - Retrieval Failure

Question 1

What are cues?

Answer 1

Reminders that may or may not be meaningfully linked such as environmental and mental state cues

Question 2

What are context dependent cues?

Answer 2

The area in which the learning or situation happened which prompts the memory

Question 3

What are state dependent cues?

Answer 3

The mental state you are in at learning can act as a cue

Question 4

What are the strengths of retrieval failure?

Answer 4

1. A lot of research support
2. Real world application
3. Retrieval failure explains interference

Question 5

What are the weaknesses of retrieval failure?

Answer 5

1. Retrieval cues do not always work

2. The danger of circularity

Question 6

What is retrieval failure?

Answer 6

Occurs due to the absence of cues. An explanation for forgetting based on the idea that the issues related to being able to retrieve a memory that is there but not accessible