Long-term Memory Forgetting
Long-term Memory Forgetting
- Causes of not remembering an item.
- Never stored: Encoding Failure
- Gone from storage: Storage Failure
- Can not get out of storage: Retrieval Failure
- Interference Model of Forgetting
- DEFINITION: One item reducing ability to retrieve another.
- Proactive Interference: forward acting interference. Earlier learning reduces the ability to retrieve later learning
- This is a retrieval failure: response competition.
- Retroactive Interference: backward acting interference. Later learning reduces the ability to retrieve earlier learning.
- Both response competition, and unlearning.
- Thus, retroactive interference is both a retrieval and a storage failure.