A03

• What can it explain?

  Some forgetting from STM and LTM
• Where is it easier and harder to demonstrate?

  Easier to demonstrate in a lab but harder in everyday life
• Why is it harder in everyday life?

  Because it's unclear on how much day-to-day forgetting can be attributed to forgetting
• What can it ONLY explain?

  2 sets of information that are similar
• What is it more useful to explaining?

  Forgetting in STM rather than LTM
• What is interference difficult to separate?

  Displacement and decay
• What is competition of response?


  When a an old memory is moved to a new location
• What is unlearning?


  When forgotten information is permanently lost or over-written by new information
• What can't it explain?

  Forgetting of episodic memory, large amounts of semantic or procedural memory
• What kind of theory is it?

  Limited