Buildup
of Proactive Interference in Japanese Kanji Learning
T. Fujita |
The
discriminative assumption on buildup of proactive interference in
short-term memory predicts that when intertrial similarity of items
is high, the proactive interference is built up while interlist similarity
of items is low, the proactive interference is not built up. To test
the discriminative assumption in Japanese Kanji learning, intertrial
similarity was changed by the acoustic, the radical (as one of the
figurative properties), and the radical plus semantic properties
in Kanji. For the acoustic and the radical plus semantic properties,
the proactive interference was built up in the non-discriminative
list with high intertrial similarity but not built in the discriminative
list with low intertrial similarity, which supported the prediction.
The prediction was not supported for the radical property. The findings
were discussed with reference to the discriminative function of these
properties as memory cues.
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