Abel, Magdalena and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2016) Retrieval practice can eliminate list method directed forgetting. MEMORY & COGNITION, 44 (1). pp. 15-23. ISSN 0090-502X, 1532-5946
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It has recently been shown that retrieval practice can reduce memories' susceptibility to interference, like retroactive and proactive interference. In this study, we therefore examined whether retrieval practice can also reduce list method directed forgetting, a form of intentional forgetting that presupposes interference. In each of two experiments, subjects successively studied two lists of items. After studying each single list, subjects restudied the list items to enhance learning, or they were asked to recall the items. Following restudy or retrieval practice of list 1 items, subjects were cued to either forget the list or remember it for an upcoming final test. Experiment 1 employed a free-recall and Experiment 2 a cued-recall procedure on the final memory test. In both experiments, directed forgetting was present in the restudy condition but was absent in the retrieval-practice condition, indicating that retrieval practice can reduce or even eliminate this form of forgetting. The results are consistent with the view that retrieval practice enhances list segregation processes. Such processes may reduce interference between lists and thus reduce directed forgetting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LONG-TERM RETENTION; PROACTIVE-INTERFERENCE; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; BENEFITS; ACCOUNT; Retrieval practice; Directed forgetting; Interference; List segregation |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2019 11:09 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2019 11:09 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/2733 |
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