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Forgetting in long-term memory - The interference theory.
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Forgetting in long-term memory. The interference theory Forgetting means when the information that is stored in the brain is no longer there. The two main reasons why people forget is due to interference and trace decay, trace decay is when the participants forget the required information as they have not rehearsed it many time. Interference is when something gets in the ways of there learning for example music, you may listen and work at the same time however a small section in your brain is concentrating on the music which requires more attention and gradually you forget what you were doing or going to do. Psychologists in the 1930s 1940s and 1950s thought that the reason people forgot things was mainly due to the interference. It was suggested that one way of learning gets in the way of another and therefore causes the mind to forget the previous thing. That previous learning...
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