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• retrieval failure is known as cue dependent forgetting

  • forgetting will occur if there are a lack of cues
• meaningful cues (semantic)

  • must have a meaningful link to us
  • forgetting is more likely to occur if cues have no meaning to us
• context dependent forgetting

  • external cues such as the environment we were in at the time may remind us of the material.
  • when the environment in which we learnt the info is diff to where we are recalling the info is diff forgetting is more likely to occur.
• state dependent forgetting-

  • internal cues such as the state we were in at the time can remind us of the material we learnt
  • forgetting occurs when the state in which we learnt the material is diff to the state we are recalling the info in.