Evaluation on interference

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P - there is evidence of interference effects in everyday situations

Ev - Baddeley and Hitch asked rugby players to recall the names of the teams they had played against during the second season. They found that players who played the most games had the poorest recall

Ex - this shows that interference can operate in some real-world situations which increase the validity of this theory

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P - evidence of retrograde facilitation

Ev - Coenen and Luitelaar found that when a list of words were learned under the influence of the drug diazepam, recall one week later was poor.

Ex - this shows that forgetting can be due to interference

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P - interference is temporary and can be overcome by cues of hints

Ev - Tulving and Psotka gave participants lists of word organised into categories, one list at a time. At the end, participants were given a cued recall test - they were told the names of categories and recall rose again to 70%

Ex - interference causes a temporary loss of accessibility to material that is still in the long term memory

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