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Do explicit memory manipulations affect the memory blocking effect?
Joshua D Landau1, P Andrew Leynes
1Department of Behavioral Sciences, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA 17405-7199, USA. jlandau@ycp.edu
Abstract:
The memory blocking effect (MBE) occurs when people are prevented from completing word fragments because they studied orthographically similar words. Across 3 experiments, we investigated how manipulations that influence explicit memory tasks would influence the MBE. Although a significant MBE was observed in all 3 experiments, manipulating depth of processing (Experiment 1), time to complete the fragments (Experiment 2), and awareness of the MBE (Experiment 3) did not change the magnitude of the MBE. We discuss these results in the context of a suppression mechanism involved in retrieval-induced forgetting.
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