著者

野村 幸正

出版者

公益社団法人 日本心理学会

雑誌

心理学研究 (ISSN:00215236)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.3, pp.130-139, 1974-08-10 (Released:2010-07-16)

参考文献数

36

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The principal purpose of the present study was to examine the adequacy of the interference theory in accounting for the so-called spacing effect in short-term memory tasks. A series of the 4 experiments were designed to investigate this problem by using the continuous paired-associate format and the Brown-Peterson format. The results indicated that the determinant of the effects of the spacing interval and the retention interval was the number of intervening items or tasks and this might be interpreted by the interference theory. Further, the relation between the spacing effect and the interference theory may be explained by assuming that the function of the spacing interval was mainly to provide the opportunity for the first encoded cue to forget rather than the stored information to forget by the interference.