Output interference

The Interference theory of memory states that people forget not because memories are actually lost from storage, but because other information gets in the way of what people want to remember.

Output interference is one aspect of of this theory and occurs when the "activity of retrieving, ITSELF", interferes with the retrieval of the actual information needed in the first place. Primarily, this is caused by the limited capacity of the short-term memory.

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