Three Comparisons of Retroactive and Proactive Inhibition

Authors

Benton J. Underwood, University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Retroactive inhibition (RI) has long been recognized as one of the most potent factors in forgetting. Of relative recent treatment is the forgetting produced by the operations defining proactive inhibition (PI). If RI is defined as a decrement in the recall of an activity as a result of other activity intervening between the original learning and recall, PI may be defined as a decrement in recall as a consequence of an activity which took place prior to the original learning.

Publication Date

1942

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

49

Issue

1

First Page

425

Last Page

429

Copyright

©1942 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Underwood, Benton J. (1942) "Three Comparisons of Retroactive and Proactive Inhibition," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 49(1), 425-429.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol49/iss1/82