Cue-dependent VS Interference

Cue-dependent VS Interference

1. Cue-dependent

2. Interference

3. Where does theory suggest forgetting occurs?

   • LTM
   • LTM

4. What is happening in the brain?

   • Info can't be retrieved- but when a cue is present it can be
   • Info isn't lost, just confused and distorted. Interference disappears when cues are given

5. What are the causes of forgetting?

   • 1. Info is inaccessible. 2. Failure to store/decay
   • Proactive: old interferes with new. Retroactive: new interferes with old.

6. Are there sub-types?

   • -State cues: internal eg. being drunk. -Context cues- external eg.setting/enironment
   • Proactive & Retroactive

7. Practical Applications?

   • Reinstate cues of learning when recalling for better recall
   • Very few

8. Criticising studies?

   • No
   • No

9. Supporting Studies?

   • Godden and Baddeley; Duka et al; Miles and Hardman. All lack mundane realism but do yield cause and effect
   • McGoech and McDonald; Jenkins and Dallenbach; Peterson and Peterson. All lab exp. so are reliable but lack ecological validity

10. Any problems that the theory can't explain?

    • Doesn't account for emotional words. Doesn't explain difference between state and context cues
    • Doesn't account for all types of forgetting. Doesn't explain how. Doesn't account for cues