Explanations for Forgetting
Students will explore why we forget information, focusing on proactive and retroactive interference, as well as retrieval failure due to the absence of cues.
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Students will explore why we forget information, focusing on proactive and retroactive interference, as well as retrieval failure due to the absence of cues.
Key Questions
- How does interference cause forgetting in long-term memory?
- What is the encoding specificity principle?
- How do context and state-dependent cues aid memory retrieval?
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