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Some psychologists believe that we simply rehearse things and that is how we remember. By rehearsing it leaves our short-term memory and enters our long-term memory.
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Introduction Background Information Some psychologists believe that we simply rehearse things and that is how we remember. By rehearsing it leaves our short-term memory and enters our long-term memory. This does not explain why we forget things or why certain things help us to remember. The effect of context forgetting is known as context dependent forgetting or cue dependent forgetting. We need the right cues to access information. Good evidence for cue dependent forgetting comes from Tulving (1966). Tulving read people lists of words from various categories e.g. furniture or animals. The category names were also presented but the participants were not asked to remember the category names just the examples e.g. chair, table etc. They found that, in free recall those participants who were given the paper with the category names as headings remembered more words than those just given a blank sheet of paper. This demonstrates how cues can guide information...
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