Concept information
Preferred term
response competition
Definition
- Simultaneous activation of memories that compete as a response to a cue.
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- retrieval competition
- trace competition
Scope note
- Competition between memory traces is one of the processes invoked to explain forgetting, particularly that caused by retroactive interference. For example, participants learn a first list of A-B word pairs and then a second list of A-C words. Thus, the same words (A) are associated with different responses in the two lists (B and C). When the first list of word pairs is tested, by asking participants to recall the B responses associated with the A words, the acquired A-B and A-C associations compete. The more recent associations (A-C) are thought to block the older ones (A-B).
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• McGeoch, J. A. (1942). The psychology of human learning: An introduction. Longmans.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Postman, L., & Underwood, B. J. (1973). Critical issues in interference theory. Memory & Cognition, 1(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198064
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Webb, L. W. (1917). Transfer of training and retroaction: A comparative study. The Psychological Monographs, 24(3), 1-90. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0093121
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
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compétition des traces
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-T8D54BTV-N - • Postman, L., & Underwood, B. J. (1973). Critical issues in interference theory. Memory & Cognition, 1(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198064
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