Interference in memory for multiple contexts
β Scribed by John R. Anderson, Gordon H. Bower
- Book ID
- 120725541
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Society Publications
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 797 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-502X
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## Abstract Interference is a critical problem for memory systems and a primary cause of retrieval failure. One strategy for minimizing interference is to associate the items to be remembered with the context in which they were learned. For example, human subjects who learn two lists of words in se