Directed forgetting in a proactive interference paradigm
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Xiaoming Li (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- R. Reed Hunt
Abstract: "One explanation of the benefit of directed forgetting is the reduction of proactive interference (PI) from the first list during encoding of the next list. To explore this possibility, I used a forget instruction in a release from PI paradigm. The forget instruction did not reduce the PI on subsequent lists as measured by the immediate tests usually given in this paradigm in Experiments 1-3. The other variable manipulated in this study was the recall tests. A reverse test effect was found on a final recall measure in Experiment 2. Immediate recall tests in a PI paradigm may already serve as an implicit forget cue to the participants. This finding has implications for both directed forgetting and proactive interference research."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Directed forgetting in a proactive interference paradigm
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- directed forgetting, reduction, proactive interference (PI), recall
- Subjects
- Explicit memory
- Memory--Testing