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Correction to Sahakyan and Delaney (2005)
Sahakyan, Lili; Delaney, Peter F.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v31 n5 p1164 Sep 2005
This article reports an error concerning the article "Directed Forgetting in Incidental Learning and Recognition Testing: Support for a Two-Factor Account" by Lili Sahakyan and Peter F. Delaney ("Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition," Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 789-801). The article was misidentified in the July issue as an Observation. The manuscript was accepted as a Regular Article. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record EJ734703.) Instructing people to forget a list of items often leads to better recall of subsequently studied lists (known as the benefits of directed forgetting). The authors have proposed that changes in study strategy are a central cause of the benefits (L. Sahakyan & P. F. Delaney, 2003). The authors address 2 results from the literature that are inconsistent with their strategy-based explanation: (a) the presence of benefits under incidental learning conditions and (b) the absence of benefits in recognition testing. Experiment 1 showed that incidental learning attenuated the benefits compared with intentional learning, as expected if a change of study strategy causes the benefits. Experiment 2 demonstrated benefits using recognition testing, albeit only when longer lists were used. Memory for source in directed forgetting was also explored using multinomial modeling. Results are discussed in terms of a 2-factor account of directed forgetting.
Descriptors: Memory, Testing, Intentional Learning, Experimental Psychology, Incidental Learning, Recall (Psychology), Learning Strategies, Recognition (Psychology)
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