An independent S design employing a distractor-type task was used to investigate release from proactive inhibition (PI) as a function of intertrial interval (ITI) in short-term memory (STM). Of specific interest was whether PI release was provided by shift in ITI length rather than a function of lengthening the ITI. Four groups were employed in this study. One group received short ITIs for 4 trials and then a long ITI for the next 2 trials; another group shifted from a long to short ITI, and two additional groups received constant ITIs throughout. It was found that neither lengthening ITI nor a shift in ITI length provided a release from PI. Implications concerning time as an organizational (clustering) factor in final recall were not substantiated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/180502 |
| Date | January 1972 |
| Creators | Buscetta, Samuel Richard |
| Contributors | Deckers, Lambert H. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | ii, 36 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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