Interference

Question 1

Baddeley and Hitch

Answer 1

. Rugby study
. How many players from the games could they recall
. The more games they’d played the harder it was to recall the players
. Time had nothing to do with it

Question 2

Baddeley and Godden

Answer 2

. The divers study
. Remember material either underwater or on land
Then asked to recall them either on land or underwater.
. 4 conditions
. Of course those who were in the same place had better recall.
. State dependant forgetting

Question 3

Overton

Answer 3

. Participants were either drunk or sober when asked to recall either drunk or sober.
If they were in the same state when they recalled they recalled better

Question 4

What are the known possible explanations for retrieval failure?

Answer 4

. State and cue dependent forgetting
. Displacement theory
. Repression
. Trace decay
. Proactive and retroactive interference

Question 5

What other theory does displacement support?

Answer 5

The serial position theory.

Question 6

Waugh and Norman found

Answer 6

That words that occurred closer to the last word of a list were recalled better. This suggests they displaced the first words

Question 7

Trace decay was supported by which study?

Answer 7

Peterson and Peterson’s when they stopped retrieval and the trigrams they learned decayed.

Question 8

Williams 1994 did what?

Answer 8

Looked at women who had repressed memories of childhood sexual assaults.

Question 9

Williams’ findings were…

Answer 9

30% of the women had no recall of earlier abuse
16% had one time they could recall
The earlier the abuse was the harder it was to recall but it was recalled.
This suggests repression is a valid explanation of forgetting