Inverse forgetting in short-term memory.

Crawford, June; Hunt, Earl; Peak, Grahame

doi:10.1037/h0023644

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“…The deleterious effect of attenuated preparatory processing is comparable to the disruptive effect of interpolated activity (Brown, 1958;Peterson & Peterson, 1959). The facilitative effect of enhanced preparatory processing and the differential rates of forgetting for the firstand second-presented subsets are consistent with evidence reported by Crawford, Hunt, and Peak (1966), Hellyer (1962), Peterson andPeterson (1959), andSanders (1961) that rehearsal strengthens, rather than merely renews, material being retained. Amounts and rates of forgetting in this and previous studies are not easily compared because free recall, rather than ordered recall, was used here.…”

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Short-term retention: Preparatory set as covert rehearsal.

Doll¹

1969

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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It is shown that preparatory processing produced by advance partially informative cueing in reaction time (RT) tasks which employ verbal stimuli can be viewed as rehearsal in short-term-memory tasks. Experiment I showed that the advance-cueing RT procedure produces decreased mean RT to cued stimuli and increased mean RT to noncued stimuli, suggesting that the cues evoke enhanced preparatory processing of cued stimuli and attenuated preparatory processing of noncued stimuli.Experiment II demonstrated that enhanced preparatory processing, like rehearsal, facilitates short-term recall and that attenuated preparatory processing, like attenuation of rehearsal by interpolated activity, impairs recall. The implications of the findings for the necessary and sufficient conditions for rehearsal, the selectivity of rehearsal, and the relationship of rehearsal to the accessibility of information in longterm memory are discussed.

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