PSY 452 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Endel Tulving, Free Recall
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Forgetting (thorndike 1914) if you don"t use a memory it decays: predicts older memories should be more decayed than newer memories. Problems: time really isn"t an explanation; something must be happening in time, impossible to test (jenkin & dallenbach 1924) recall test 8h after learning, conditions: sleep vs. beginning of day (memory lost throughout day, decay cannot explain this. Interference theory: other information in memory interferes with memory recall. Proactive: old information interferes with new information: retroactive: new information interferes with old informatin. Retrieval failure: memory is lost in the system not from the system, ex. Tot: tulving & pearlstone: cued vs. free recall, availability: memory exists, accessibility: access and retrieve now. Tip-of-the-tongue state: memory is lost in the system; available but not accessible. Distortion: not the cause of forgetting; happens after, high achievers distort information more but forgetting is the same as low achievers. Permastore: state in which information cannot be lost:
