Forgetting in Short-term Memory
Forgetting can be a useful way in clearing out the un-wanted clutter
from our memories. We do not need to remember things like what we wore
last Thursday.
Displacement
We must remember that according to Miller, the capacity of S.T.M is
limited to about seven items (+ or - two.) Material that is
circulating in our S.T.M that has not been sufficiently processed by
our L.T.M. can be pushed out or displaced by new incoming information.
Waugh and Norman (1965) used a technique known as the serial probe
technique to investigate this idea. This involved presenting
individuals with a series of digits followed by the repetition of one
of these digits known as the probe digit. They found that recall was
good if the probe came towards the end of the series but was poor if
it came towards the beginning of the series. This is consistent with
the notion of displacement as the digits at the end of the list would
still be available in S.T.M whereas the digits at the beginning of the
list would seem to have been displaced by the following digits.
This may not be the only explanation however. Shallice (1967) found
that a faster rate of presentation of the digits had an effect on
performance. The faster the rate of presentation, the better the
recall was which suggests time may be an important factor in
forgetting. It has become difficult to isolate the effect of
displacement from decay
.
Decay
According to the decay theory, information is lost with the passage of
time rather than displacement of memory trace. It is thought that
there is a structural change that occurs in the brain when a...
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support for the concept of repression.
Recently research has focused upon repressed memories associated with
child sexual abuse and whether or not recovered memories are genuine.
The main problem with assessing whether or not they are true is that
they have no independent, objective corroborative evidence. Williams
(1992) found that 38 percent of a group of African-American women who
were known to have suffered abuse reported repressed memories about it
although it was clear that some of these memories were false. Loftus
(1997) conducted an extensive review of studies that led him to
believe that even psychologically healthy individuals altered their
memory of events based on false suggestions about them. Baddelley
concluded that it is important to exercise great caution in
interpreting such reports.
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This investigation looks at retrieval failure in the long-term memory, particularly context-dependant forgetting. The theory behind retrieval failure is that available information stored in the long-term memory cannot be accessed because the retrieval cues are defective. Cue-dependant forgetting theory focuses on the assumption that the context in which we learn something is significant when we come to recall the information. Recall is better if it takes place in the same context as the learning. Research conducted on retrieval failure includes Tulving and Pearlstone (1966) who studied intrinsic cues by asking subjects to learn a list of words from different categories.
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