{"id":360,"date":"2023-10-17T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:04:57","slug":"the-interference-theory-of-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/the-interference-theory-of-forgetting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Interference Theory of Forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we forget something? \u00a0This is an important question\u00a0in psychology. \u00a0\u00a0It may reflect memory interference. \u00a0The\u00a0interference theory of forgetting suggest that we would forget\u00a0something because other information learned is interfering\u00a0with our ability to recall it. \u00a0There are two types of\u00a0interference.<br><br><strong>Proactive Interference<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>Proactive interference occurs when something that we p<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>reviously learned interferes with remembering newer  in<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>formation.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>For example, imagine that you took one psychology course\u00a0last term, and you are currently taking a psychology course\u00a0that is very similar to the psychology course you took last\u00a0term. \u00a0You are finding it difficult to learn and remember the\u00a0information in the psychology course you are currently taking.\u00a0\u00a0This may be due to the interference with similar information\u00a0that you learned in the psychology course you took last term.<br><br><strong>Retroactive Interfer<\/strong><strong>e<\/strong><strong>nce<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>Retroactive interference occurs when newer information<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>learned interferes with remembering <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>p<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>reviously learned<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>\u00a0i<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>nformation.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><br>For example, you may have difficulty remembering what happened at a business meeting over a month ago because of\u00a0information learned at a more recent business meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell Why do we forget something? \u00a0This is an important question\u00a0in psychology. \u00a0\u00a0It may reflect memory interference. \u00a0The\u00a0interference theory of forgetting suggest that we would forget\u00a0something because other information learned is interfering\u00a0with our ability to recall it. \u00a0There are two types of\u00a0interference. Proactive InterferenceProactive interference occurs when something that we previously learned interferes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/the-interference-theory-of-forgetting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Interference Theory of Forgetting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}