Abstract
Retrieving information from memory can lead to forgetting of other, related information. The inhibition
account of this retrieval-induced forgetting effect predicts that this form of forgetting occurs when
competition arises between the practiced information and the related information, leading to inhibition of
the related information. In the standard retrieval practice paradigm, a retrieval practice task is used in
which participants retrieve the items based on a category-plus-stem cue (e.g., FRUIT-or___). In the
current experiment, participants instead generated the target based on a cue in which the first 2 letters of
the target were transposed (e.g., FRUIT-roange). This noncompetitive task also induced forgetting of
unpracticed items from practiced categories. This finding is inconsistent with the inhibition account,
which asserts that the forgetting effect depends on competitive retrieval. We argue that interference-based
accounts of forgetting and the context-based account of retrieval-induced forgetting can account for this
result.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 248-252 |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 16 Nov 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2016 |
Keywords
- retrieval-induced forgetting
- memory
- inhibition
- competitive retrieval
- retrieval-specificity