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Explanations for forgetting: Retrieval failure
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- 1What is retrieval failure?A form of forgetting. It occurs when we don't have the necessary cues to access memory. The memory is available but not accessible unless a suitable cue is provided.
- 2What is a cue?A 'trigger' of information that allows us to access a memory. Such cues may be meaningful or may be indirectly linked by being encoded at the time of learning/ For example, cues may be external (environmental context) or internal (mood or degree of drunkness)
- 3Who carried out the context- dependent forgetting study on divers?DUNCAN GODDEN AND ALAN BADDELEY (1975)
- 4Who carried out the state-dependent forgetting study with anti-histamine drugs?SARA CARTER AND HELEN CASSADAY (1998)
- 5What is the encoding specificity principle?Recall is best when there is a large overlap between the information available at the time of retrieval (cues) and the information in the memory trace.
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