Explanation For Forgetting: Retrieval Failure

Question 1

Retrieval failure

Answer 1

Occurs when the cues present at memorising info are not present when recalling the info
Cues can be internal or external as there is context and state dependent forgetting

Question 2

Context dependent forgetting

Answer 2

Context dependent occurs when our environment does not match when we learnt info to when we recall it
Golden and baddely water experiment on land and in water

Question 3

State dependent

Answer 3

Occurs when our internal cues don’t match
Cattery and cassady used anti histamines to do same study as golden and baddely
Found 40% higher recall rates in matching conditions

Question 4

AO3

Answer 4

• it may lack ecological validity as baddelu argues that it would be hard to find conditions as polar as land and water so may not accurately depict everyday life so may not be the best explanation for retrieval failure
• golden and baddely repeated study but looked for recognition rather than recollection and found no proper difference and so actually may only explaining forgetting for one typen of memory. And so is not generalisable