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Interference in Sentence Memory

Mori Toshiaki

広島大学教育学部紀要. 第一部

Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 1

The present study was designed to investigate whether the retroactive inhibition originally observed in paired-associate learning of nonsense syllables can be generalized to the free-recall learning of sentences. The subjects learned two lists of 12 sentences in succession. The syntactic structure of each sentence consisted of a noun phrase and a verb phrase, and two free-recall lists were constructed to conform the A-B, A-D and A-B, C-D paradigms. The major results indicated that (1) substantial retroactive inhibitions (RIs) occurred in both transfer paradigms; (2) these RIs were overcome by using relevant knowledge to integrate sentences; and (3) the subjects could recall the constituents of a sentence (noun phrase and verb phrase) even when they could not recall a whole sentence. These results were interpreted as contradicting the classical interference theory in which RI would be predicted on the basis of A-B, A-D relationship between successive lists, and the theoretical implications for the models of sentence memory were discussed.

memory of sentence

free recall of sentence

retroactive inhibition

interference theory

integration of sentences

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学教育学部

[ISSN] 0440-8705

[NCID] AN00213359