| 1. | There are two types of interference; proactive interference and retroactive interference.
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| 2. | Shortly afterwards proactive interference was demonstrated with the Brown-Peterson paradigm.
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| 3. | This led to what is known as the proactive interference.
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| 4. | Wickens discovered the release from proactive inhibition through his research on proactive interference buildup.
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| 5. | To differ, others have tried to investigate the relation of proactive interference when cued to forget.
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| 6. | The research, as predicted, showed retardation and impairment in associations, due to the effect of Proactive Interference.
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| 7. | That's because proactive interference causes data already in working memory to hinder the storage of information coming in later.
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| 8. | Therefore, these associated cues do not directly control the potential effect of proactive interference on short term memory span.
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| 9. | First, proactive interference has to do with difficulty in learning new material based on the inability to override information from older memories.
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| 10. | The most obvious and used proactive interference and negative transfer paradigm from the 1950s and 1960s was the use of AB-AC, or AB-DE lists.
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