Psychological explanations of forgetting

What this note covers

1. Interpret the forgetting curve and savings method
2. Distinguish failure to encode and pseudo-forgetting
3. Explain retrieval failure and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
4. Compare context-dependent and state-dependent retrieval
5. Differentiate proactive and retroactive interference
6. Evaluate decay, suppression and repression

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