dc.contributor.advisor | Cowan, Nelson | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Zwilling, Christopher E. | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 Summer | eng |
dc.description | The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 19, 2009) | eng |
dc.description | Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Forgetting in short-term memory has been studied extensively and yet no consensus has emerged to explain its cause. Two theories continue to provide competing explanations of forgetting in short-term memory: decay and interference. Decay presupposes that the memory trace for a set of stimuli to be remembered weakens in proportion to the amount of time that passes whereas interference posits one stimulus interacting with another as the cause of forgetting. Recent evidence has suggested that decay should no longer be considered a viable mechanism to explain forgetting; but the current set of studies provides compelling evidence to the contrary. Hence these studies argue that decay should not be abandoned. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.identifier.merlin | b70702780 | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 431427228 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/5720 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/5720 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri-Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations. Theses. 2008 Theses | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Short-term memory | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Retroactive interference (Psychology) | eng |
dc.title | Forgetting in short term memory : the effect of time | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Psychological sciences (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |