Explanations for forgetting

• evaluation - real life application


  theories like context cues improving recall have been used in the development of the cognitive interview
• interference and cue theory may only explain temporary loss of info

  may not be true explanations of forgetting
• interference only explains forgetting two similar info learnt at similar time

  struggles to explain day to day examples of forgetting e.g someone birthday
• artificial studies of memory

  mundaen realism - not tasks that people would do in their everyday life

  artificial lab experiments - may not be the same in real life experinces