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Direct linkPierce, Benton H.; Gallo, David A.; McCain, Jason L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Initial learning can interfere with subsequent learning (proactive interference [PI]), but recent work indicates initial testing can reduce PI. Here, we tested 2 alternative hypotheses of this effect: Does testing reduce PI by constraining retrieval to the target list, or by facilitating a postretrieval monitoring process? Participants first…
Descriptors: Interference (Learning), Memory, Information Retrieval, Recall (Psychology)
