Gone but not forgotten: The transient nature of retrieval-induced forgetting

被引:160
作者
MacLeod, MD [1 ]
Macrae, CN
机构
[1] Univ St Andrews, Sch Psychol, St Andrews KY16 9JU, Fife, Scotland
[2] Dartmouth Coll, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
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10.1111/1467-9280.00325
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Recent research has demonstrated that the act of remembering can prompt temporary forgetting or, more specifically, the inhibition of particular items in memory. Extending work of this kind, the present research investigated some possible boundary conditions of retrieval-induced forgetting. As expected, a critical determinant of temporary forgetting was the interval between guided retrieval practice and a final recall test. When these two phases were separated by 24 hr, retrieval-induced forgetting failed to emerge. When they occurred in the same testing session, however, retrieval practice prompted the inhibition of related items in memory (i.e., Experiment 1). A delay of 24 hr between the encoding of material and guided retrieval practice reduced but did not eliminate retrieval-induced forgetting (i.e., Experiment 2). These findings are considered in the wider context of adaptive forgetting.
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