Explanations for forgetting
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 22-04-19 10:22
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- Interference theory
- Proactive interference
- Old information interferes with remembering new information
- Retroactive interference
- New information disrupts previously stored information
- Evaluation
- Tends to use lab experiments and artificial situations
- Lacks mundane realism and ecological validity
- Easily replicated, controlled, check for reliability and standardised
- Clearly supported by research evidence
- Only gives us an explanation for forgetting but doesn't use cognitive processes to explain
- Only explains forgetting when information is similar
- Tends to use lab experiments and artificial situations
- Interference theory research evidence
- Baddeley and Hitch (1977) Rugby players remember teams they played; forgetting occurred during more games played rather than more time passed between game
- Postman (1960) Two lists of similar words vs control group with only one list; control had better recall as only had one list
- Interference
- Forgetting when similar material is confused in the recall from the LTM
- Proactive interference
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