interference AO3 Flashcards
1
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Real world study that support interference
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- supporting evidence for interference
- Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (1977)
- asked rugby players to recall all the teams they had played against
- all players played for the same time interval
- but some missed games due to injury
- players who played the most games had the poorest recall (RETROACTIVE)
- study shows that interference can operate in some real world situations
- increasing the validity of the theory
2
Q
Artificial stimulus
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- learning lists of random words with no personal meaning to the ppts
- low mundane realism
- factors may also influence the extent of forgetting rather than interference
3
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Lack mundane realism and reliability
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- conducted in a very short space of time
- ppts recalled their words 1 or 2 hours after they have learnt them
- doesn’t reflect time in everyday life
- we often let several days pass by before we recall information
- suggests that interference is unlikely to be a valid explanation for forgetting from the LTM
4
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One limitation is that interreference is temporary and can be overcome using cues
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- Eden tulving and joseph psutka (1971) gave ppts a list of words organised into categories, one at a time
- the ppts didn’t know what the categories were
- recall averaged 70% for the 1st list
- as they learned new lists recall became progressively worse (PROACTIVE)
- at the end they were given a cued recall test when recall rose to about 70%
- shows that interference causes a temporary loss to memories that is still
