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Unit 5 – Cognitive Psychology
Topic 5.5
What is the primary function of interference theory in cognitive psychology?
To explain forgetting as the result of competition between newer and older memories
To justify why some memories are more vivid than others
To describe how memory is stored in different parts of the brain
To categorize different types of long-term memory
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AP Psychology - 5.5 Forgetting and Memory Distortion
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