The selective directed forgetting effect: Can people forget only part of a text?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1542-1550

  Delaney, Peter F ^a   Nghiem, Khanh N ^b   Waldum, Emily R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Directed forgetting; Inhibition; List method; Memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68349101808     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902770049     Document Type: Article

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