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Interference theory |
When LTMs become inaccessible. Occurs when information competes with another. |
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Proactive interference |
When past learning interfers with new learning |
If you keep writing last years year on your work |
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Research for proactive interference |
Wickens(1972) gave participants 4 trials, 1,2&3 were all letter based trigrams but 4 was number based and recall for number based remained almost 100% whereas the others declined in recall |
Candle |
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Retroactive interference |
When new learning replaces old |
Doing GCSE French then Alevel Spanish and the Spanish replaces the French |
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Research for retroactive interference |
Schmidt et al (2000) asked 211 volunteers (aged 11-79) to recall street names off a numbered map form a place the lived as children. There was a positive association between how many times they moved house and how many street names were forgot. Concluded that learning new streets made older ones harder to recall |
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