@article{ref1,
title="Examining a processing tradeoff explanation of proactive interference",
journal="Memory and cognition",
year="1993",
author="Hirshman, Elliot and Burns, D. J. and Kuo, T. M.",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="5-10",
abstract="Burns (1989) claims that proactive interference effects occur in paired-associate learning because of tradeoffs in relational and response-specific processing. Consistent with this claim, Burns demonstrated that free recall of critical-list responses is better in the interference condition than in the control condition. Burns's processing tradeoff explanation predicts that the occurrence of this reverse-interference effect should be positively correlated with the occurrence of traditional interference effects. We present several experiments whose results are inconsistent with this prediction. We hypothesize that the reverse-interference effect is a list-length effect. The results of a final experiment, contrasting the predictions of the list-length and processing tradeoff explanations, support the list-length explanation.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-502X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}