Retroactive Inhibition as a Function of the Relative Serial Positions of the original and Interpolated Items

Authors

Arthur L. Irion, State University of Iowa

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The importance of retroactive inhibition as one of the major theoretical conditions of forgetting makes experimentation on it particularly important at this time. Retroactive inhibition may be defined as the decrement in an originally learned act attributable to the learning of a second act between the time of the original learning and its recall. More rigidly than this, retroactive inhibition may be defined in terms of the experimental operations, the experimental design employed in the production of it.

Publication Date

1941

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

48

Issue

1

First Page

325

Last Page

329

Copyright

©1941 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Irion, Arthur L. (1941) "Retroactive Inhibition as a Function of the Relative Serial Positions of the original and Interpolated Items," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 48(1), 325-329.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol48/iss1/95