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Retrieval failure
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- 1What is retrieval failure?A form of forgetting, which occurs when specific cues are not made to help access the memory.
- 2What is a cue?A trigger of information that allows you to access a certain piece of information.
- 3Who created encoding specificity principle(ESP)?Tulving
- 4What does the term encoding specificity principle state?If a cue is present during encoding of info then it will need to be present for recall of the memory come.
- 5Who came up with context-dependant forgetting?Baddeley + godden
- 6Who came up with state-dependant forgetting?Carter + cassaday
- 7A strength of the retrieval experiments?It has supporting evidence which increases the validity.
- 8Limitation?Context effects, because it means that real-life applications of retrieval failure due to contextual cues don’t actually explain much.
- 9Limitation?Context effect may have an effect on the kind of memory being tested, meaning it only gives answers to certain circumstances.
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- A level Psychology (memory) Flashcards on Retrieval failure , created by pearl tshimbalanga on 08/12/2017.
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