PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Interference Theory, Retrospective Memory, Prospective Memory
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Learn lists until he could remember each one. Would test himself after taking a delay to the relationship between the amount of time between studying and testing and the amount of how much he forgot. His chart of percentage of memory retained vs retention interval starts off with a sharp drop, then tapers off (forgetting curve) New information (more recent) interferes with old information. Makes it dif cult for us to access the old information: proactive interference. Switching from topic to topic serial position curve. You have a higher chance of remembering the beginning and the end of a list, not the middle primacy effect: you are more likely to remember the rst few words of the list. Because there is no proactive interference recency effect: you are more likely to remember the last few words on the list. More likely to be in short memory (only if the test is immediate)
