Exploring Retrieval Induced Forgetting with Ad Hoc Categories

The retrieval-practice paradigm has demonstrated that the act of selectively recovering some of the previously studied items from a category impairs the retrieval of the remaining items from that category, as compared to the retrieval of information from non-practiced categories (retrieval-induced forgetting); the practiced items are also better remembered than the items from non-practiced categories (a facilitation effect). This paradigm typically uses semantic categories, but its classic effects have been [...]

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