Retroactive interference in 3-month-old infants

✍ Scribed by Alba Rossi-George; Carolyn Rovee-Collier

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-1630
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199911)35:3<167::aid-dev1>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

In traditional research on retroactive interference, subjects first study one type of material and then they study a second type. When test performance on the original material is impaired by having studied the second type, this is termed retroactive interference. Different accounts have been introduced to explain this phenomenon in human adults. attributed retroactive interference to unlearning the associations on an initial study list as a result of learning new associations on a second study list. This storage-based account has survived as a changed-trace interpretation of interference. , in contrast, placed the source of interference at retrieval. By his account, new learning did not weaken the original stimulus -response association but competed favorably with it at the time of testing, inhibiting its recall. This account is a multiple-trace interpretation