Forgetting - Retrieval Failure

Question 1

Encoding-specificity principle

Answer 1

Tulving and Thomson (1973)
cues at encoding
cues at retrieval
if cues at encoding and retrieval are different, your memory is worse

Question 2

Godden and Baddeley (1975)

Answer 2

Divers learnt a list of words
Learn on land - recall on land
Learn on land - recall underwater
Learn underwater - recall on land
Learn underwater - recall underwater

Question 3

A03 - context-dependent forgetting - Baddeley (1997) - limitation

Answer 3

Extremely different situations
Context effects in real life aren’t as extreme
Lowers ecological validity
Weakens practical application of the theory

Question 4

A03 - context-dependent forgetting - limitation - effects

Answer 4

Divers participate in all 4 conditions
practice and fatigue effects
impacts validity

Question 5

A03 - context-dependent forgetting - Grant et al (1998) - strength

Answer 5

Students did homework with music or in silence
study with music - do better in exams with music
study in silence - do better in exams in silence
context cues effect recall rather than recognition