Types of forgetting

Question 1

Decay

Answer 1

Happens when we don’t pay attention to the information that enters sensory store = sensory info breaks down and not available

According to multi-store model, duration of short term memory is 30 seconds -> no retrieval = info decay

Some psychologist believe decay can happen in long-term memory store - long gap

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

Short term memory’s limited capacity of 7 + - 2, more information , new info pushes out the old, not rehearsed then forgotten, displacement not in long term memory as capacity thought to be w/o limit