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Bauml, Karl-Heinz T.; Kliegl, Oliver – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
Proactive interference (PI) refers to the finding that memory for recently studied (target) information can be vastly impaired by the previous study of other (nontarget) information. PI can be reduced in a number of ways, for instance, by directed forgetting of the prior nontarget information, the testing of the prior nontarget information, or an…
Descriptors: Memory, Evidence, Children, Reaction Time