Abel, Magdalena and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2017) Testing the context-change account of list-method directed forgetting: The role of retention interval. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 92. pp. 170-182. ISSN 0749-596X, 1096-0821
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People can voluntarily forget previously studied material when cued to do so. Such directed forgetting may arise because the forget cue induces a change in mental context, thus causing context-dependent forgetting. This context-change account predicts that both context-dependent forgetting and directed forgetting should be relatively transient and be reduced, if not eliminated, after prolonged retention interval. In each of two experiments, participants studied two lists of items and between study of the lists were asked to remember or forget the first list, or engage in an imagination task. After a short or a prolonged retention interval recall of the first list items was tested. Whereas imagination induced forgetting that was restricted to short retention intervals, the forget cue induced forgetting that was present regardless of retention interval. The finding challenges the context-change account and indicates that the effects of a forget cue and induced mental context change can be nonequivalent. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SELECTIVE MEMORY RETRIEVAL; LONG-TERM-MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; SLEEP; INHIBITION; RECALL; INTERFERENCE; MECHANISMS; SYNCHRONY; PREDICTS; Directed forgetting; Context-dependent forgetting; Time-dependent forgetting; Mental context change; Inhibition |
| 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: | 14 Dec 2018 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 10:54 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/529 |
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