retrieval failure ao3

Question 1

Strength of retrieval failure ‘ - supporting evidence

Answer 1

P: There are a lot of research studies providing evidence for retrieval failure as an explanation for forgetting.
E: research by carter and cassady was a lab study that tested partipants recall of word lists either recalling on or off drug and learning on and off drug. they found that when there was a mismatch between internal state for learning and recall performance was significantly worse. so thus via retrival failure absense of sufficient cues leads to forgetting
futrther research by godden sand baddely found ppts who learnt word lists whilst under water were more likely to remember those words when asked to recall them in same context. this is compared to groups who were aksed to learn their words on water nd recall on land or vice versa
L; This is a strength because more supporting evidence increases the validity of an explanation.Evidence shows that retrieval failure occurs both in real life situations and in controlled conditions

Question 2

Weakness of retrieval failure

Answer 2

Countering research support - Baddeley says that context effects are not that strong, as most of the time, contexts do not vary enough (such as between kitchen and bedroom). This shows that retrieval failure may not contribute to much of everyday forgetting

Recall vs recognition - Godden and Baddeley replicated their experiment testing recognition instead of recall, and found that recognition negates context and performance was identical in every condition. This suggests that retrieval failure only apples to forgetting in recall, not recognition.

Question 3

strength of retrival failure - practical applications

Answer 3

P; one strength of retrival failure is its practical applucations
E; eg in the cog interview the police use what we know from retrival failure to help witnesses remember more accurate details abourt an event. this includes by reconstructing the scene both mentally and physically in order to provide both environmental and emotional cues that could jog the witnesses memory
E; furthermore tv programmes like crimewatch produce reconstructions and broadcast them live s was used in murder of danille jones in 2001 and ultimiatley lead to a succesful conviction
L; thus our understanding of cue dep forgetting and retrival failure has had a positive impact on policing and has contributed to many offenders being brough to justice