Encoding Processes and Release from Proactive Interference in Short-Term Memory of Preschool Children

1985 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald B. Reutener ◽  
Janis Fang
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry W. Hoemann ◽  
Carol E. Andrews ◽  
Donald V. DeRosa

Thirty-seven deaf and 38 hearing children, ages eight to 12, were tested in a short-term memory task. Special interest focused on the build-up and release of proactive interference (PI). Both groups showed PI when the items were drawn from the same conceptual class of animals. In addition, experimental groups of deaf and hearing subjects showed a release from PI when shifted to a set of items drawn from a different category on the last trial. It was concluded that deaf children encode categorically in short-term memory (suggesting a normally functioning ability to think abstractly and to process information without acoustic mediators).


1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 307-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Turvey ◽  
J. J. Cremins ◽  
T. Lombardo

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal E. A. Kroll

Trigrams were presented visually or auditorily and followed by a 12 s retention interval filled with shadowing numbers or letters. Auditory memory letters followed by letter shadowing were recalled less than auditory memory letters followed by number shadowing or visual memory letters followed by either type of shadowing. The latter three conditions did not differ among themselves. An analysis of the recall intrusions suggested that forgetting of auditory memory letters followed by letter shadowing was caused mainly by a confusion between covert rehearsals and shadowing activity, while forgetting in the other three conditions was caused primarily by proactive interference from earlier memory trials.


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