Benjamin Aaron S
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign 61820, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2006 Oct;13(5):831-6. doi: 10.3758/bf03194005.
It is an almost universally accepted claim that the list-method procedure of inducing directed forgetting does not affect recognition. However, previous studies have omitted a critical comparison in reaching this conclusion. This article reports evidence that recognition of material learned after cue presentation is superior for conditions in which the material that preceded cue presentation was designated as to-be-forgotten. Because the absence of an effect of directed-forgetting instructions on recognition is the linchpin of the theoretical claim that retrieval inhibition and not selective rehearsal underlies that effect, the present results call into question the need to postulate a role for inhibition in directed forgetting.
几乎普遍接受的一种观点是，诱导定向遗忘的列表法程序不会影响识别。然而，先前的研究在得出这一结论时遗漏了一个关键的比较。本文报告的证据表明，对于线索呈现之前的材料被指定为要遗忘的情况，线索呈现后学习的材料的识别效果更好。由于定向遗忘指令对识别没有影响是理论主张的关键，即检索抑制而非选择性复述是该效应的基础，因此目前的结果质疑了在定向遗忘中假设抑制作用的必要性。
