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Give brief account of and evaluate attempts to explain forgetting in LTM
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Give brief account of and evaluate attempts to explain forgetting in LTM To be able to understand why we forget, we must first consider the difference between availability and accessibility: the first refers to whether or not material has been stored in the first place, while the second refers to being able to retrieve what has been stored. In terms of the multi store model, since information must be transferred from STM to LTM for permanent storage, availability has mainly to do with STM and the transfer of information from STM to LTM, and accessibility has mainly to do with LTM. This suggests that one way of looking at forgetting is to ask what prevents information from staying in STM long enough to be transferred to LTM (trace decay, interference, displacement), and another is to ask what prevents us from accessing the information that is in LTM. Trace explanation of forgetting in...
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