The effect of directed forgetting on the time to remember |
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Authors: | William Epstein Lucinda Wilder Lynn Robertson |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin. |
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Abstract: | A recognition memory task was used to determine whether the search set is reduced by cueing subject to forget a part of the input. Correct recognition reaction time was used to infer the size of the search set. The principal results were that RT on forget trials was faster than RT on remember trials and that RT was fastest when the forget cue was presented at the outset of the trial rather than after the material had been presented. These findings are generally consistent with the hypothesis that selective search is responsible for the enhancement of recall produced by forget instructions in earlier studies. |
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