State-dependent forgetting
When retrieval failure happens as the external emotional cues that were present at encoding are not present at recall
Carter and Cassidy (1998) - state forgetting using anti-histamine drugs
Learn on drug - recall on it
Learn on drug - recall off it
Learn off drug - recall on it
Learn off drug - recall off it
Learnt a list of words
Learnt best if conditions were congruent with retrieval conditions
A03 - consistent drug effects - strength
Those who learned words intoxicated or not, recalled better when in the same state - Overton (1972)
Marijuana has the same effect - Carley et al (1973)
State dependably ie not limited to specific substances
Hugh mundane realism , reliability
A03 - circular reasoning - Nairne (2002)
Critiques the myth of encoding - retrieval match - arguing that successful recall following a specific cue leads to researchers to assume that the code cue was encoded during learning
If recall fails, the absence of encoding is inferred
The assumptions are unfalsifiable - no experimental methods exist to show if cues were encoded
