Forgetting our facts: The role of inhibitory processes in the loss of propositional knowledge

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Anderson, MC [1 ]
Bell, T [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oregon, Dept Psychol, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
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10.1037//0096-3445.130.3.544
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B84 [心理学];
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Seven experiments are reported that show that retrieving facts from long-term memory is accomplished, in part, by inhibitory processes that suppress interfering facts. When asked to repeatedly retrieve a recently learned proposition (e.g., recalling The actor il looking at the tulip, given cues such as Actor looking t_), subjects experienced a recall deficit for related facts (e.g., The actor is looking at the violin) on a recall test administered 15 mia later. Importantly, this retrieval-induced forgetting was shown to generalize to other facts in which the inhibited concepts took part (e.g., The teacher Is lifting the violin), replicating a finding observed by M. C. Anderson and B. A. Spellman (1995) with categorical stimuli. These findings suggest a critical role for suppression in models of propositional retrieval and implicate the mere retrieval of what we know as a source of forgetting of factual knowledge.
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