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Hodge, Milton H.; Britton, Bruce K. – 1981
Previous research by A. I. Schulman argued that an observed systematic decline in recognition memory in long word lists was due to the build-up of input and output proactive interference (PI). It also suggested that input PI resulted from process automatization; that is, each list item was processed or encoded in much the same way, producing a set…
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Memorization