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Document Type
Research
Abstract
In everyday life it is a common experience to find that some established response interferes with the learning of some new response. Thus the automobile driver finds it somewhat difficult to learn to shift gears using a control on the steering column after having shifted them by means of an older type control. The typist finds that she has trouble learning to type on a second keyboard in which the keys are located in relatively different positions. These are examples of a phenomenon known as proactive inhibition. This term is generally used to refer to a decrement in performance or rate of learning of one task resulting from the prior learning of some other task.
Publication Date
1948
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
55
Issue
1
First Page
333
Last Page
337
Copyright
©1948 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Shephard, A. H.
(1948)
"A Measure of Retroactive Inhibition in Motor Learning,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 55(1), 333-337.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol55/iss1/47