Janice is preparing for her final oral Spanish exam. She practices reciting her vocabulary while running on a treadmill at a fast pace in a busy gym. However, during the exam, she is required to sit perfectly still at a quiet desk, and she finds herself struggling to remember several key terms she knew well. After the exam, when she goes back to the gym and starts running on the treadmill again, the forgotten vocabulary immediately comes back to her.
Discuss retrieval failure as an explanation for forgetting. Refer to Janice’s experience in your answer.
39 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Forgetting. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.