PROACTIVE

• WHAT ARE THE TWO EXPLANATIONS FOR FORGETTING?

  interference and retrieval failure
• WHAT IS FORGETTING?

  loss/ modification of information encoded or stored in the LTM
• WHAT IS INTERFERENCE?

  when two sets of information become confused
• WHEN IS INTERFERENCE MOST COMMON?

  similar information
• WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF INTERFERENCE?

  proactive and retroactive
• WHAT IS PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE?

  forgetting new information as existing information is preventing recall
• WHO RESEARCHED PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE?

  Tulving and Psotka
• WHAT DID TULVING AND PSTOKA DO IN THEIR EXPERIMENT?

  participants were given a list of 24 words and once recalled, given a new list of 24 words
• WHAT RESULTS DID TULVING AND PSTOKA FIND?

  recall was 70% on the first list, then decreased every time a new list was given
• WHAT WAS THE CONCLUSION OF TULVING AND PSTOKA'S STUDY?

  old information/ lists interfered with new information/ lists
• WHAT TYPE OF RESEARCH SUPPORT DID TULVING AND PSTOKA DO?

  empirical
• WHAT WAS THE COUNTERARGUMENT OF TULVING AND PSTOKA'S STUDY?

  • lack mundane realism
  • lack ecological validity
  • not example of everyday activities
  • theory not applicable to real life forgetting examples