Strategy control and directed forgetting

摘要: Signals to subjects forget presignal items (F-items) can completely eliminate the proactive interference postsignal (R-items) would normally suffer from F-items. To determine what happens F-items, a strategy-control procedure was developed test memory for F-items without destroying forget-signal credibility. The saw short lists of paired associates, some containing signal pairs. After each list, single stimulus probe tested appropriate response. Tested pairs were always R-pairs unless prearranged cue informed that an F-pair. Although F-pairs did not interfere with recall R-pairs, there substantial and among F-pairs. results support set differentiation mechanism directed forgetting.