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Australian Capital Territory - Australian Capital Territory Year 12 Certificate Psychology (Forgetting) Flashcards on Retrieval Failure Theory, created by Mary :) on 05/06/2013.
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Retrieval Failure Theory A theory of forgetting that states that memories are inaccessible because retrieval cues that were present when the memory was formed are missing at the time of retrieval
Cue A piece of informaion that helps you to retrieve information from LTM
Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) Phenomuenon When we remember some information about the word/information we are trying to recall but we cannot remember the actual word/information
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