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retroactive interference

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retroactive interference [‚re·trō‚ak·tiv ‚in·tər′fir·əns]
(psychology)
Type of interference in which information that is learned later interferes with information that was learned earlier.


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Other research has shown that reward omission can produce retroactive interference with memory for a previously visited maze location (Terry, 1996), suggesting that omission can affect memory processing.
Koster, Degel, and Piper (2002) reported that retroactive interference affected an implicit odor memory task, in which participants were asked to judge the 'goodness of fit' between pictures of a room and particular odors.
 
 
 
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