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Title
The reality of directed forgetting in the item-method paradigm: suppression, not selective search or decay
Description
It has been suggested that directed forgetting (DF) in the item-method paradigm results from selective rehearsal of R items and passive decay of F items. However, recent evidence suggested that the passive decay explanation is insufficient. The current experiments examined two theories of DF that assume an active forgetting process: (1) attentional inhibition and (2) tagging and selective search (TSS). Across three experiments, the central tenets of these theories were evaluated. Experiment 1 included encoding manipulations in an attempt to distinguish between these competing theories, but the results were inconclusive. Experiments 2 and 3 examined the theories separately. The results from Experiment 2 supported a representation suppression account of attentional inhibition, while the evidence from Experiment 3 suggested that TSS was not a viable mechanism for DF. Overall, the results provide additional evidence that forgetting is due to an active process, and suggest this process may act to suppress the representations of F items.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Hansen, Whitney Anne (Author)
- Goldinger, Stephen D. (Thesis advisor)
- Azuma, Tamiko (Committee member)
- Brewer, Gene (Committee member)
- Homa, Donald (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
ix, 110 p. : ill
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8897
Statement of Responsibility
by Whitney Anne Hansen
Description Source
Viewed on June 6, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2011
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-101)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Psychology
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- 2011-08-12 03:33:17
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- 2021-08-30 01:55:13
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