Context-dependent impairment of recollection in list-method directed forgetting

Hanczakowski, MacIej ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8980-4918, Pasek, Tomasz and Zawadzka, Katarzyna 2012. Context-dependent impairment of recollection in list-method directed forgetting. Memory 20 (7) , pp. 758-770. 10.1080/09658211.2012.702774

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Abstract

In list-method directed forgetting, people's ability to forget one of the sets of learned material is examined. Research shows that memory for to-be-forgotten items is impaired when assessed by a recall test and by recognition tests reliant on recollective processes. Retrieval inhibition and context-change mechanisms have been proposed to account for the directed forgetting effects and both of them account for the results obtained with recognition tests. However, the context change account makes a specific prediction that recollection is impaired by directed forgetting only if it makes use of contextual associations. In the present study, directed forgetting was examined with two types of recollection-based tasks making use of different types of associations, namely a list discrimination task utilising contextual associations and an associative recognition task utilising interitem associations. Consistent with the context change account, the costs of directed forgetting were observed in a list discrimination task and were not observed in an associative recognition task. The results indicate that impairment in recollection due to directed forgetting is not general and provide converging evidence to support the context-change account.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Directed forgetting, Context change, Recollection
Publisher:	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
ISSN:	0965-8211
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47624

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