forgetting

• what is interference in the context of memory? 


  interference occurs when the recall of one memory blocks the recall of another
• what are the two types of interference?

  Retroactive and Proactive interference
• what does retroactive interference do?

  blocks the recollection of old memories with new memories
• want does proactive interference do?

  blocks the recall of new memories with old memories
• what was the main finding of Godden and Baddelys underwater experiment in 1975


  there was no significant difference in accuracy of recognition between matched and non matched conditions
• What does the finding from Godden and Baddeleys study suggest about retrieval failures?


  Retrieval failure may only be explained forgetting for some types of memory under specific conditions
• what is a limitation of the encoding specificity principle

  it suffers from cyclical reasoning due to over reliance on assumptions