explanations for forgetting
- Created by: floramorris
- Created on: 22-04-19 11:11
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- explanations for forgetting
- pro active interference
- old information prevents the recall of newer information
- occur with telephone numbers for example
- who trying to recall a new phone number, the old phone number proactively interferes with the recall
- old interferes with new
- retroactive interference
- more recent information gets in the way of trying to recall older bits of information
- calling your ex by your current bf name
- the new name retroactively interferes with old name
- new interferes with old
- interferance is an explanation for forgetting in long term memory
- the basic theory states that interference occurs when information that is similar in format gets in the way of information that someone is trying to recall
- research evidence: Baddeley + Hitch (77)
- poor ecological validity
- pro active interference
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