Tulving And Psotka (1971)

Question 1

Tulving And Psotka aim

Answer 1

To research if interference is only temporary

Question 2

Tulving And Psotka procedure

Answer 2

They gave the participants lists of words, organised into different categories, one list at a time to memorise for a memory test. The participants were not told the categories. They were then given another memory test and told the different categories

Question 3

Tulving And Psotka findings

Answer 3

Average recall was around 70% for the first lisrt and became progressively worse with each additional list. Sith the other memory test, when the participants knew the categories, the recall rose again to around 70%

Question 4

Tulving And Psotka importance

Answer 4

It shows that inference causes temporary loss of accessibility to memories that are still in the LTM

Question 5

Tulving And Psotka strength

Answer 5

The study shows that there is a way to stop interference

It shows that by grouping pieces of information or adding other cues, the inference can be overcome and the memroies become accessible again

This is important because the theory of inference had not predicted this before the study, so this helped psychologists better understand inference

Question 6

Tulving And Psotka limitation

Answer 6

This study does not have much mundane realism

There are not many times in daily life where people need to remember lists of words with seemingly no relation, so this study can’t be applied to other situations

This shows that the study has very low external valididty