interference

• interference theory


  we forget LTM because memories become confused and disrupted while it is coded
• Proactive interference


  old information interferes with new information
• Retroactive interference


  New information that disrupts old information
• similar information - interference is.....

  more likely to occur due to response competition
• time sensitivity


  interference is more likely to happen when there is a small amount of time when you learnt both bits of information
• Underwood - support for proactive interference


  asked participants to learn 10 paired word lists. - 48hrs to recall

  • repeated 4 times
  • it was found - correctly recalled pairs decreased the more word pairs had been learnt recently - old words caused confusion for new words