Proactive Interference in Short-Term Memory

Recall Probability as a Function of Prior Item Recall

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ID13655836
AuthorsKatharine Blick Hoyenga (Western Illinois University, corresponding author), James B Garrett (Western Illinois University)
Year1976
Volume39
Issue3
Pages935-944
Publication date1976-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.935
OpenAlexW2041627149
LanguageEN
References cited21

In two different experiments, one with 23 brain surgery patients and one with 39 college students, proactive interference in short-term memory was evaluated as a function of the recall of the just preceding item in a Brown-Peterson distractor technique. In the first experiment, the probability of an error following an error was .25, and the probability of an error following a correct item was .24. In the second experiment, there was also no significant effect ( p > .05) of either prior item repetition or recall upon recall of the subsequent item, except in the case of prior items having a retention interval of 24 sec. In that case, well-remembered items exerted less proactive interference than items on which an error had been made. The results were evaluated in terms of a theory derived from the selector mechanism proposed for long-term memory (Postman, Stark, & Fraser, 1968)

Audiology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Free recall · Interference (communication · Interference theory · Recall · Recall test · Repetition (rhetorical device · Serial position effect · Short-term memory · Statistics · Term (time · Working memory · Computer Science · Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning · Mathematics · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Memory Processes and Influences · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology

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