⚪️ Memory - Explanations for Forgetting

Question 1

Interference

Answer 1

One memory disturbs the ability to recall another. This might result in forgetting or distorting one or the other or both

Question 2

Proactive interference

Answer 2

New information being interfered with. This is due to previously learnt information interfering with new information

For example, you have difficulty learning your new phone number due to your memory of your old one

Question 3

Retroactive interference

Answer 3

Old information being interfered with. New info overwrites previously stored info. A new memory interferes with old ones

For example, you have difficulty remembering the names of students you taught last year but not this year

Question 4

Aim of postman (1960)

Answer 4

• to investigate how retroactive interference affects learning. In other words, to investigate information you recently received interferes with the ability to recall someone you learned earlier than that