Interfernce Theory

Question 1

Retroactive Interfernce

Answer 1

Current Interferes Past
Georg Müller

Question 2

Georg Müller

Answer 2

Gave participants list of nonsense syllables learn 6 mins

Performance was less good if participants given intervening task between initial learning
Intervening task produced RI

Question 3

Proactive Interference

Answer 3

Past interferes Current attempts
Benton Underwood

Question 4

Benton Underwood

Answer 4

Meta analysis
After 24 hours: 20% info was remembered
If only 1 list: 70% was remembered

Question 5

McGeoch and McDonald

Answer 5

List A - 10 adjectives
List B - synonyms from list A (12% recall)
Interference strongest more similar items are

Question 6

Support for interference in real world

Answer 6

E: Baddeley + Hitch: Rugby players to recall teams played
Those who played most had poorest recall
E: Interference in everyday situations, increase validity of theory

Question 7

Research quite artificial

Answer 7

E: Most research lab based, artificial lists
+ participants may lack motivation to remember

E: Finding may not relate to everyday uses of memory, low ecological validity

Question 8

Interference only explains some situations for forgetting

Answer 8

Anderson: unclear how much forgetting linked to interference
E: Relativity unimportant explanation for forgetting